Subject: LAW
Section: 29387
Name of Class: Law 16 - Civil & Criminal Evidence
Instructor: Prof. Sylvia Macias
Email: maciass@lamission.edu
Class website: http://lamission.edu/~maciass
Semester: Fall 2017
This class is an on campus hybrid class @ LA Leadership Academy
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Class Starting Date: 8/27/17
Class Ending Date: 12/17/17
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Class Description: Study of the rules of civil and criminal evidence and the admissibility of such evidence in court including relevancy, hearsay, hearsay exceptions, character evidence, habit and custom, witness & competency, impeachment, authentication and identification of documents, constitutional restraints, and common law privileges. Students analyze evidentiary objections to trial transcripts, and other legal documents
Textbook: http://lamission.edu/law/textbooks
Syllabus - http://lamission.org
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Brief law cases in criminal and civil evidence including hearsay, hearsay exceptions, relevance, habit, custom, authentication, privileges, constitutional restraints, and other issues relating to evidence.
2. Critically analyze and argue issues of evidence and the other subject matters listed in #1 above.
3. Prepare legal documents, forms or papers including evidentiary analysis of transcripts, objections at trial, and during discovery, objections to evidentiary questions in interrogatories, and request for admissions, arbitration and mediation. Students will read evidence cases and write a case brief demonstrating their understanding and application of the essential facts and rules of law and legal principles of the case - see case brief rubric at http://missionparalegal.pbworks.com/briefing
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