Evidence for Paralegals 2004

In its new Fourth Edition, Evidence for Paralegals continues to help students understand how evidentiary principals are applied in practical situations. Written from a real-life perspective allowing students to see beyond the walls of the classroom, the authors apply the material to actual practice at all judicial levels. This text owes its popularity to the following features: Focuses on the practical applications of the Federal Rules of Evidence and how the rules relate to paralegal practice; Covers a full range of topics, including gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, and researching; Written from a real-life perspective, showing how actual practice works in local, state, and federal court; Pedagogy in text developed for paralegal students, and includes short case summaries, readable examples, marginal definitions of terms, marginal cross-references to the Rules of Evidence, review questions, and hypotheticals; Short, concise presentation is ideal f