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Updated in Dec. 2023 with 2023 amendment to Rule 803(8); With 2022 amendment to Rule 803(6).
The Illinois Rules of Evidence Handbook (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This copy of the Illinois rules "added value" is a 16 page section on making and responding to common objections (including a discussion of the 15 most common objections and a list of 60 common trial objections) and over 60 pages on evidentiary foundations and impeachment - including 25 examples of foundations for introducing physical, electronic, hearsay, and social media evidence, a discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence, and sample impeachment transcripts.
The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for 50 years - a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 45 years and 5 years at Wayne State Law School in Detroit. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of the Law School's Clinical Program since 1978. He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. For the past 50 years, he has taught a criminal clinic in which his students try traffic and minor criminal cases under the state student practice rule. He has published evidence handbooks similar to this one for all 50 states as well as 15 other jurisdictions from American Samoa to the U.S. Virgin Islands. He also has evidence and negotiation & ADR cartoon books on Amazon as well as a book on effective communication for negotiation and mediation. His students, under his supervision, at Wayne State and Hawaii have represented real clients in real cases every year he has been teaching.