First Readings for Spring 2025
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Dates for Spring 2025
- The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Monday, December 9, 2024.
- Assignments will begin to be posted Monday, December 9, 2024.
- The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Monday, February 3, 2025.
- Assignments will be removed on Monday, February 3, 2025.
Evidence (LAWS 671 §001)
Instructor Name(s)
Martin
Textbook Information
Deborah Merritt & Ric Simmons, Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom (5th ed.).
General Assignment Information
Welcome to Evidence!
The assigned textbook for this course is Deborah Merritt & Ric Simmons, Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom (5th ed.).
West is offering students free access to the textbook for our course for three weeks this spring, starting the week before classes begin and running through the first two weeks of class. Instructions for accessing the free e-book are posted on the course TWEN page. Most students have been pre-registered for the TWEN page. If you cannot access it, email me at lvmartin@law.sc.edu for the password.
The reading assignments for our first two classes are:
1/15:
- Chapter 2: Types of Courtroom Evidence
- Chapter 3: Four W’s of the Federal Rules of Evidence
- Chapter 4: Structure of a Trial
1/17:
- Chapter 5: Raising and Resolving Evidentiary Objections
- Chapter 69: Authentication