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8/18/2019 Evidence Slides Week 1_General Relevance
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Evidence TA Session:Week 1
Charlie Sprague,
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Today’s Agenda:
TannerWagner and revie! of "ur#verdicts
$ro%ativeness and &aterialit#
Conditional 'elevance
$ro%ativeness vs. (nfair $re"udice
)our other *uestions
$lease note 'ed on the slidesho!
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The /,///0oot 2ie!We trust "uries, put fe! checks on the back end oftrials
Tanner v. US 31467
8runk, high, tired, ill, !hat9s the dierence;
< 'ationales: 317 =nalit#> 37 potential for harass+ent>3?7 self0consciousness> 3 *uestion
is unresolved. What are the three approaches;
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'elevance: 'E
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'elevance
$ro%ativeness F +aterialit# G relevanceunder 'E
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'elevance: 'E
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E-a+ple: U.S. v. Jamesacts:
I Ja+es charged !ith +anslaughter for handing agun to her daughter, !ho then shot I9s %o#friend3!ho had "ust punched the daughter9s %o#friend7
I clai+s self defense, needs to sho! she trul# fearedfor her life. I sa#s her fear !as %ased partl# on thevic9s %ragging a%out all the violent things he9d done.
I !ants to introduce records sho!ing that the vic!as actuall# convicted of so+e of the acts he
%ragged a%out.$rosecutor o%"ects: I didn9t kno! the vic !as everconvicted of these things. So ho! could the recordsho!ing the convictions possi%l# shed light on I9s+ental state;
What9s the olding;
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U.S. v. James, cont9d"olding: CA4: Evidence is pro%ative and +aterial.
&ore likel#!astruthfula%outHgden9s%oasts
&ore likel# Ja+es hadreasona%lefear
Peo#le $orelikely to
boast aboutt%ingst%ey’vereally done&
'ecordssho! prior
violent acthappened.
'ecords tended to sho! I had a reasona%le %eliefthat she !as in danger %ecause the# esta%lish theo%"ective truth of so+ething Ja+es %elieved to %etrue.
The records corro%orated Ja+es9 testi+on# a%outvic9s %oasting +ake it +ore likel# he actuall# said
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A $ro%le+ of 'elevance
$olice pull over Kionel S+#th for speeding. n thepassenger seat the# see Kionel9s %udd#, Sa+ LlitM.N)ou9re !anted for #esterda#9s car"ackingOP theoBcer e-clai+s to Sa+uel. NA!, #ou can9t prove he
did "ack shit,P sa#s Kionel. The oBcer arrests Sa+and takes a picture of the car9s %ack seat, !here alead pipe 3the kind of !eapon used in thecar"acking7 sits atop several 3legal7 porn +agaMines.
n Sa+uel9s trial for the car"acking, the prosecutorseeks to ad+it the follo!ing: 317 Kionel9s state+entand 37 photographs of the pipe 3!hich had Sa+9s=ngerprints on it7 and +agaMines. Can the defense
keep these out on relevance grounds; o!;
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$reli+inar# Questions: 'E1/<
'ule 1/
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Conditional 'elevance: 'E1/
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Fithugh 3+ore C.'. page?57
Fithugh case in court:
317 $rosecutor tries to put on evidence that &rs. !as goingto tell the son that &r. !as not his father 3!hich !ould haveprovided a +otivation for &r. to kill &rs. 7
37 8efense o%"ects ho! !ould the defense state theo%"ection;
This doesn9t prove an#thing a%out I9s +otive, since !e don9teven kno! if he !ne" of &rs. 9s plan
3?7 $rosecutor sa#s she has evidence that &r. did kno!.She !ants to proceed on conditional relevanc# grounds.
Judge !ill ask;
if there is su*cient evidence for a reasonable "ur# to=nd %# a #re#onderance of the evidence that thecondition is +et 3here, that &r. kne! of &rs. 9s plan7.
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$re"udicial vs. $ro%ative:'E
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(nfair $re"udice
To keep relevant evidence out, thedanger of unfair pre"udice +ustsu%stantiall# out!eigh its pro%ative
value. t needs to %e unfairl# pre"udicial3since all good evidence is pre"udicial insome !a#7 E-a+plesT#pe of Evidence;
+n,a$$atory -vidence
-vidence t%at’s only incre$entallyvaluable (but +’ll %old o. on t%is untilnext /eek /%en /e discuss Old Chief )
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risk0free discount rate
asic 2acts of 3erial: irl is found dead %# strangulation.E-0%o#friend Adnan is defendant suspected of killing her.State9s +otive !as that he !ent into a rage after she %rokeup !ith hi+ %ecause he had sacri=ced ever#thing to %e!ith her, particularl# %etra#ing his religious %eliefs and
l#ing to his fa+il# since he !as not suppose to %e dating%efore +arriage, particularl# a non0&usli+.
Possible -vidence ad$issible under 405 or not6
1) Adnan’s -T Training
!) Adnan’s Religion
5) Adnan s$oked $ariuana
Hther #pos0 SerialO