What to read after California Objections?

Prepare to seamlessly present your case and confidently object to your opponent’s evidence with California Objections. This edition includes new and updated text in 18 chapters and more than 100 new case notes. The new text and cases cover a wide array of topics, including:

• Expedited jury trials.
• Scope of court’s discretion to control voir dire.
• Prescreening of juror questionnaires and stipulations to dismiss jurors.
• Process for determining whether peremptory challenges were used for a discriminatory purpose.
• Effect of juror’s intentional or inadvertent failure to disclose material information.
• Adoptive admissions; declarations against interest; spontaneous statements and dying declarations.
• Meaningful opportunity for cross-examination as a prerequisite to admission of former testimony.
• The attorney-client privilege and a criminal defendant’s right to confrontation.
• Waiver of the work-product privilege.
• Specific instances of conduct to show a witness’ character for truthfulness or its opposite in criminal cases.
• Requirements for admission of computer animation to illustrate expert testimony.
• Disclosure of expert witness information in civil cases.
• Admissibility of expert testimony on credibility of witnesses who are minors.
• Misstatements of law by opposing counsel.
• Personal attacks during argument.
• Court’s obligation to instruct the jury on the law.
• Use of Judicial Council approved jury instructions.
• Juror’s failure to follow instructions.
• Juror’s reliance on outside information or expertise