Office of Defender Services
TRAINING BRANCH
- Federal Rules of Evidence - Introductory Outline
by Marjorie A. Meyers, Federal Public Defender, S.D. TX
- The Rules of Evidence: Keeping Out the Bad, Getting in the Good, and Preserving Issues for Appeal
by Frank Morales, Assistant Federal Public Defender, W.D. TX
- Impeachment Cobbler
by Francisco Morales, Assistant Federal Public Defender, S.D. TX
- Evidence Meets Hollywood...Training the Litigator's Ear to Make, Meet and Win Trial Objections
by Francisco Morales, Assistant Federal Public Defender, S.D. TX
(Outline covering topics such as objections, offering exhibits, use of specific rules of evidence, preservation of error, and opening the door; also includes sample motions in limine.)
- Offensive Use of the Rules of Evidence
by Omodare Jupiter, Assistant Federal Public Defender, S.D. MS
(discussing how to avail oneself of evidentiary rules that the prosecution generally uses against the defense)
- Creative Uses of the Rules of Evidence
by Professor Barbara E. Bergman, University of New Mexico Law School; & Nancy Hollander, Freedman, Boyd, Daniels, Hollander, Goldberg & Ives, P.A., Albuquerque, NM
- The “Constitutional” Rules of Criminal Procedure Related to the Presentation of Evidence in a Criminal Prosecution
by Brent Newton, Assistant Federal Defender, S.D. TX
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better (Federal Rules of Evidence 404 and 405)
by Michael Maloney, Assistant Federal Public Defender, D. NE,
& Pamela Hamrin, Assistant Federal Public Defender, W.D. TN
(discussing the benefits of using rules 404 and 405 to introduce character evidence of an alleged victim or government witness)
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: The Affirmative Use of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)
by Jennifer Gilg, Research and Writing Attorney, District of Nebraska