Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re focusing on an important topic in Evidence – the Best Evidence Rule, which requires a witness to produce the document whose contents he or she is testifying about.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Evidence is different from most other topics on a law school exam
- The Best Evidence Rule and its related exceptions
- Analyzing several hypos from previous California bar exams
- Structuring an answer to an Evidence question
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Resources:
- “Listen and Learn” series
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2005
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2012
- Podcast Episode 259: Listen and Learn – Relevance in Evidence
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