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Emanuel Law Outlines: Evidence

The Emanuel Law Outline provides you with the tools to succeed:

The Capsule Summary that provides a quick reference summary of the key concepts covered in the full Outline
The detailed course Outline with black letter principles that you can use throughout the semester to supplement your casebook reading and give structure to your own outline
The Quiz Yourself feature that includes a series of short-answer quuestions and sample answers to help you test your knowledge of the chapter's content
Exam Tips that are designed to alert you to issues and commonly used fact patterns found on exams
Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers that familiarize you with the style of questions on the Multistate Bar Exam
The Casebook Correlation Chart that correlates each section in the Outline wth the pages covering that topic in the casebook

Included in the Seventh Edition of Evidence Emanuel Law Outline:

Correlation to the 2011 amended FRE--see Author Updates on this website
Expanded coverage of the rules limiting use of juror testimony to "impeach the verdict" (FRE 606(b))
Coverage of the Supreme Court's 2008 decision in Giles v. California, governing when the fact that D killed the declarant will cause D to forfeit his Confrontation Clause rights with regard to the declarant's out-of-court statements
Coverage of the Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, holding that laboratory reports done by or for law enforcement are "testimonial" and are thus excludible under the Confrontation Clause unless the person who prepared them is made available for cross-examination at trial
Treatment of FRE 502, added to the FRE in 2008, covering inadvertent waivers of the attorney-client privilege