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Evidence TA Session:Week 1

Charlie Sprague,

cfs5@stanford.edu

mailto:kmyoung@stanford.edumailto:kmyoung@stanford.edu

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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