Presentation of Evidence - Impeachment Pt2

  1. t/f You can only reference the bad act itself...not any consequence that flowed forth from it.
    • true
    • You can say "Isn't it true you STOLE from your last employer?" but you can't say "isn't it true you were FIRED for stealing from your last employer?"
  2. Can you impeach by contradiction?
    • Yes
    • I can say "Well, you have 27 drug convictions for cocaine and you directly said an hour ago that you loved how cocaine made you feel in this same trial."

    If a man says "I'd never touch my wife" you can bring a witness up to say that he saw this man beat his wife.
  3. Religious beliefs can't be used to attack the credibility of a witness but they can be used to
    to show bias and motive (example: you attacked the christian church because you are part of the church of satan)
  4. A courts recognition of a fact as true without formal proof
    Judicial notice
  5. In a ___ case, a judicial notice is _____ if a party request it and supplies the court with the necessary information to indicate that the fact is not subject to reasonable dispute
    civil , mandatory
  6. In a _____ case, the jury ______ be instructed to accept a noticed fact as conclusive since this would impermissibly limit the defendants right to a jury trial
    criminal; cannot
  7. In a ____ case a jury must be instructed that it may or may not accept the noticed fact as conclusive (judicial notice)
    criminal case
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Presentation of Evidence - Impeachment Pt2
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Presentation of Evidence - Impeachment pt 2
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