Spring 2024

5357 Evidence - CRUMP- 20286

Professor(s): David Crump (FACULTY)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Procedure and Practice

Time: 1:00p-2:30p MW Location: 310

Course Outline: This evidence course will begin with an outline and problems that will cover the basics of the entire course, in advance. The idea is to give the student a quick “knowledge transfusion” over a couple of classes that will avoid policy and concentrate on the black-letter evidence rules, with the purpose of providing an introduction, a preview, and an initial exposure that will reinforce the rest of the course. Then, we will cover the Federal Rules of Evidence, more or less in their numerical order, using the casebook. This part of the course will take roughly two hours and will conclude with a comparison of a few significant differences between the Federal Rules and the Texas Rules of Evidence. The final hour or so will consist of exercises in standard methods of offering various common kinds of evidence and simulations of evidence controversies.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

Quota=80.

Evidence Supplementary Readings

Prerequisites:

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 5/1/2024 1-4 310

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:

Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: Critical (MBE & MEE)

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: Evidence Cases, Materials, and Problems Fifth Edition, by Rothstein, Crump, and Lawson (Carolina Academic Press), ISBN: 9781531012328

Supplemental materials will be made available to students before the start of the course.