New Jersey Bar Exam (UBE) preparation
Evidence
28 lessons · 28 practice questions — Bar-exam lessons on Evidence: 28 lessons in 5 topics; 28 come with a scored practice question and its rationale. Migrated from EliExplainsLaw.org; general legal education, not legal advice.
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Hearsay12 lessons
- Hearsay: Repeating Words to Prove They're True
- Non-Hearsay Uses: When Words Do a Different Job
- Party Admissions: Your Own Words Can Be Used Against You
- Prior Statements of Witnesses: When a Witness's Old Words Count
- The Play-by-Play Exception: Describing Events as They Happen
- The Too-Shocked-to-Lie Exception
- The How-I-Feel-Right-Now Exception
- The Telling-the-Doctor Exception
- Business Records: The Everyday Logbook Door
- Dying Declarations: Last Words About the End
- Statements Against Interest: Words That Hurt the Speaker
- Former Testimony: Reusing Old Answers From the Stand
Presentation of Evidence4 lessons
Privileges3 lessons
Relevancy & Exclusions7 lessons
- Relevance: Does It Help, and Is It Worth the Trouble?
- Character Evidence: "He's Just That Kind of Person" Doesn't Count
- Fixing It Later Doesn't Prove You Were Wrong Before
- Peace Offers Stay Out of Court
- Liability Insurance: Don't Tell the Jury Who Pays the Bill
- Similar Accidents: Same Spot, Same Way, Same Conditions
- Habit: The Thing You Do the Same Way Every Time