MICHIGAN RULES OF EVIDENCE HANDBOOK with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

by John Barkai

Updated March 2022. The rules have not been amended since Jan. 1, 2018. The Michigan Rules of Evidence Handbook was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. This copy of the Michigan rules "added value" is a 16 page section on making and responding to common objections (including over 15 pages on the most 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, as well as a brief discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence. There are also 30 cartoons with original captions on evidence, negotiation, and ADR to make you smile. The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for 50 years, and a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 45 years. Come visit! 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.He has published more than 100 other low-cost evidence handbooks (currently available exclusively on Amazon) for all 50 U.S. states and territories, and as well as American Samoa, Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Kosrae, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pohnpei, Yap, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. He has published other handbooks such as this one for other jurisdictions that use evidence acts, including Australia (including books for New South Wales and Victoria), Bangladesh, Canada (including books for Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario), India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, and Singapore. He offers on Amazon two cartoon captioning contest books on the topics of trial evidence as well as negotiation & ADR. And don’t miss his Amazon book on what to say to break impasses in negotiation and mediation, called Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasses and More.

240 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 26, 2020