EVIDENCE LAW ANALYZED: PRINCIPLES, PROBLEMS, AND CASES UNDER THE FEDERAL AND MARYLAND RULES

By Lynn McLain Evidence Law Analyzed provides explanations of each area of evidence, with special emphases on preservation of the record and on the admissibility of hearsay. So that students may see the rules applied in the context of complete trials, appendices set forth two trial transcripts, one criminal and one civil, to which references are made throughout the text. The book uses the more recently adopted Maryland code of evidence to compare and contrast with the Federal Rules of Evidence. Problems and questions are designed to test readers' understanding of the evidence rules and the policy decisions underlying them. The author encourages students to analyze how the various rules shape results and whether either the federal or Maryland rules should be revised. The book includes landmark cases, as well as recent caselaw exemplifying the application of the rules and their interaction with the constitutional mandate of the confrontation clause. Lynn McLain, a full professor at the U