Assignment for Law 718, Evidence, Prof. William Snyder

Assignments

For Lesson #1 on August 31, 2009, please read pages 1-30 and 989-992.

For Lesson #2 on September 2, 2009, please read pages 30 to 61.

For Lesson 3 on Wednesday, 9/09/09, please read through page 89, the end of Chapter 1.

For Lesson 4 on 09/14/09, please review Old Chief, then read Chapter 2 skipping Tuer v. McDonald on pages 95-104. So, please read pp. 90-134, minus pp. 95-104.

For Lesson 5 on 09/22/09, please read pages 135 to 159, but skipping the Méndez law review article on pages 152-154.

For Lesson 6 on 09/23/09, please read pages 159 to 197, but skipping United States v. DeGeorge and the materials on the Doctrine of Chances. So, you will be reading pp. 159-180, skipping 180-183, reading Absence of Accident and the two problems on pp 183-184, then skipping 184-190, and reading the bottom of 190 to top of 197.

For Lesson 7 on 9/29/09: Please read pp. 197 - 223 (and, of course, accompanying materials in the Rule Book.

Target for end of class 8 is page 249.

For Lesson 9 on 10/07/09, please read pages 246 to 287 in Fisher, but skipping the Uviller article on pages 255-258 and the Eisenberg article on pages 270-272.

For Lesson 10 on 10/12/09, please review pages 278-287 (assigned for last time) and read pages 287 to 311.

For Lesson 11 on 10/14/09, please read pp. 311-347.

For Lesson 12 on 10/19, please read the bottom of 357 to 386.

For Lesson 13 on 10/26, please read in Fisher pages 392 to 421.

For Lesson 14 on 10/28, please read Fisher pages 421-457, but skipping Commonwealth v. Weichell on page 448-451.

For Lesson 15 on October 30, 2009, please read pages 439 to 490, but skipping Commonwealth v. Weichell on pp 448-451, United States v. DiNapoli on pp 458-463, and Shepard v. United States on pp. 479-482.

For Lesson 16 on Monday, November 2, please read from page 475 through 535, but skipping Shepard (both installments, pages 479-482 and 499-501), the Historical Postscript (pp. 501–10), and Herbst et al., Young Children’s Understanding of the Physician’s Role … on pages 518-520.

For Lesson 18 on 11/09/09, please read to page 564 (the end of hearsay). Feel free to skip United States v. Vigneau (p.536) , Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Rainey (p.540), and United States v. Laster (p.560), although I encourage you to read Vigneau if you have the time.

Target for end of class 18 is page 616. [Missed]

For Lesson 19 on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, please read in Fisher pages 565 through 639, plus Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts at page 403 in the Supplement, but skipping The Court’s Contested Originalism on pages 587 to 593.

For Lesson 20 on Monday, November 16, 2009 please review from last assignment problems 8.4 and 8.5, Giles v. California Case Note on pp 628-633 and Melendez-Diaz in the Supplement. Then, please read in Fisher to page 693, skipping Gray v. Maryland (pp.654-661) and United States v. Gainer (pp. 684-688).

For Lesson 21 on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, please read in Fisher pages 680 to 726, but skipping United States v. Gainer on pages 684-688 (do not skip the “Afterthoughts” section about Gainer on 688-691), and skipping United States v. Johnson on pp. 694-696. Please remember to read the relevant portions of the rule book on Rules 700 to 705.

For Monday, Lesson 22, please review 704-726, then press on to page 753. Daubert (correctly pronounced DOW-bert) v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is very, very important. Crawford and Daubert are the two most important court opinions in our course.

For Lesson 23 on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, please read pages 774-804.

For Lesson 24 on Monday 11/30/09, please read Chapter 10 AUTHENTICATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND THE ‘‘BEST EVIDENCE RULE’’ on pages 805 to 839.

For Lesson 25 on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, please read pages 842 to 885, but skipping In re Grand Jury Subpoena, Judith Miller, Reporter Jailed After Refusing to Name Source, and House Extends Law to Protect Reporters from the bottom of page 855 to the middle of page 870.

For Lesson #26 on December 7, 2009, please review what we did not cover last time (pages 870-885), then continue on to page 927.

For Lesson #27 on December 9, 2009, please read pages 927 to 953.

For Lesson #28 on December 11, 2009, at 1:00 p.m. in Room 275, please read pages 954 to 977.