CONTENTS: The competency of witnesses -- Authentication -- Rule 403 and legal relevance limitations on credibility evidence -- Bolstering witnesses before impeachment -- Impeachment of witnesses -- Legal relevance limitations on evidence that is relevant to the historical merits of the case -- Privileges and similar doctrines -- The best evidence rule -- Opinion evidence -- The hearsay rule, its exemptions, and its exceptions -- Substitutes for evidence -- Motions to suppress evidence -- General procedural considerations -- Confessions and admissions -- Searches and seizures -- Eyewitness identification -- The impeachment exception.
