{"title":"Response: Are Proffers of Inadmissible Evidence Wrongful?","authors":"E. Cheng","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1103","url":null,"abstract":"This response explores the moral underpinnings of Professor Imwinkelried's article and asks whether attempts to introduce inadmissible evidence are wrongful as a general matter. It argues that the answer is no.\" The current practice and structure of the evidentiary rules is a discretionary one, which not only makes any notion of clear inadmissibility\" difficult to parse, but also means that attempts to introduce technically inadmissible evidence do not necessarily hinder the truth seeking purpose of trial.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115591814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of Trial Deliberation: Moral Agency in Legal Fact-Finding","authors":"Amalia Amaya","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1100","url":null,"abstract":"Section I explicates the building blocks of Ho's legal epistemology: the distinction between the internal and the external point of view, the belief account of legal fact-finding, and the claim that considerations of truth and justice are intertwined in evidence rules. Section II examines the applications of Ho's normative framework to the analysis of the standard of proof, the hearsay rule, and similar facts evidence. Part III subjects Ho's distinction between the internal and external point of view to close analysis in light of contemporary debates over the nature of epistemic justification. Part IV suggests that a turn towards virtue epistemology may provide a good way for extending Ho's approach to evidence law. Part V sheds doubts upon whether Ho's epistemology provides a justification of current evidentiary arrangements and argues that carrying out Ho's internal analysis would, in fact, lead to a substantial revision of those arrangements. The normative arguments of this book lend support to a conception of the law of evidence built around the notion of moral agency which constitutes a valuable normative ideal against which current rules of evidence may be assessed.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115860536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Truth, Error and Criminal Law: An Essay in Legal Epistemology","authors":"R. E. D. Munagorri","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130126712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Before We Move on to Another Topic: The Narrow Issue of Knowingly Proffering Inadmissible Evidence","authors":"E. Imwinkelried","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1105","url":null,"abstract":"This is a brief comment about Professor Cheng's response to my presentation at the 2009 AALS meeting on knowingly presenting inadmissible evidence. Professor Cheng proposes a broader discussion of the alleged wrongfulness of introducing inadmissible evidence. The purpose of this comment is to emphasize the importance of the narrow topic discussed in the original article.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126532168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidentiary Foul Play: The Roles of Judge and Jury in Responding to Evidence Tampering","authors":"Dale A. Nance","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1094","url":null,"abstract":"For at least two centuries, Anglo-American courts have responded to a party's evidence tampering by allowing the opponent to argue to jurors that they should draw an adverse inference against the offending party in deciding the merits of the case. This essay argues that it is time that the use of such inferences be radically curtailed, not only because of the ambiguities and risks of prejudice that such inferences entail, but more importantly because they involve a confusion of roles in which the jury is enlisted to participate in the management of the pre-trial conduct of litigants. This management is properly the job of the judiciary, and there are more than adequate tools for this purpose in the form of discovery sanctions, such as issue preclusion, monetary awards, and dismissals or defaults.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115395233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetic Justice in Punishing the Evidentiary Misdeed of Knowingly Proffering Inadmissible Evidence","authors":"E. Imwinkelried","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1089","url":null,"abstract":"The civil procedure rules have been amended to curb pretrial discovery misconduct. The amendments may have deterred some such misconduct. However, the downside has been that the amendments have prompted expensive, time-consuming pretrial hearings which can make it more difficult for a litigant with a meritorious claim to reach trial. In some respects evidentiary misconduct at trial is an even more serious problem than pretrial discovery misconduct. The question is whether we can deter such misconduct without creating an impediment to a fair trial on the merits. To that end, this article proposes that in extreme cases, a litigant should be able to treat an opponent's knowing proffer of inadmissible evidence at trial as proof of the opposition's consciousness of the weakness of their position in the litigation.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126717116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tribute to Professor Margaret Berger, Recipient of AALS Evidence Section's Wigmore Lifetime Achievement Award","authors":"Myrna S. Raeder","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1092","url":null,"abstract":"This is the tribute to Professor Margaret Berger that was delivered at the Association of American Law School's (AALS) Evidence Section Luncheon in San Diego, in January, 2009. Professor Berger received the Evidence Section's Wigmore Lifetime Achievement Award, and the remarks summarize her contributions to the evidence community, particularly focusing on her influence in the fields of scientific evidence, expert testimony, and confrontation clause analysis.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132149498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current Issues in Evidence and Procedure - Comparative Comments from a Continental Perspective","authors":"J. Nijboer","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1095","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Professor Nijboer discusses three dimensions of generality in evidence and procedure: (1) generality of fundamental issues in evidence and fact-finding and insights about them across national borders, (2) generality of issues of criminal evidence across various relevant disciplines (and professions), and (3) generality with respect to specific issues of criminal evidence and its principles and rules addressing the various probanda of specific crimes (murder, theft, rape, arson, negligence causing a serious traffic accident, et cetera). He then comments on the contributions to this anniversary issue from a continental perspective, with frequent references to case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Professor Nijboer finds that while legal scholars are increasingly communicating with legal scholars in other countries and scientists from other fields, there is a simultaneous counter-tendency toward adoption of crime-specific rules of substantive law and evidentiary measures for specific kinds of crime (such as protection of witnesses in rape cases, where the protection complicates the fact-findings process). He concludes from this that there is a tension between greater generality in regard to the first two dimensions and increasing specificity in regard to the third. In his final paragraphs, he turns to W.L. Twining's description of the development of evidentiary theory, in which the same tension between dimensions can be seen. The European Union's increasing legal harmonization will probably promote further discussion of evidentiary theory across disciplinary, professional, and national boundaries.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"32 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132236408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Letter to Honor Professor Margaret Berger","authors":"Jack B. Weinstein","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1098","url":null,"abstract":"This piece is a letter to honor Professor Margaret Berger on her receipt of the Wigmore Lifetime Achievement Award from the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130853926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Freeman, Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness","authors":"N. Palmer","doi":"10.2202/1554-4567.1079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2202/1554-4567.1079","url":null,"abstract":"Mark Freeman's book Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness provides a consolidated account of the procedural functioning of truth commissions. It appears at a crucial point in academic discussions around transitional justice. The book aspires to synthesize and document the lessons learnt from past experiences and in doing so makes a significant contribution to the area. The author does not, however, engage in a critical analysis of the use and role that truth commission play in societies in transition, failing to address how these procedures interact with broader legal systems. The recommendations, although useful, are taken outside of any country context, losing some of the nuance that makes truth commissions such remarkable yet often flawed responses to large-scale or prolonged human rights abuse.","PeriodicalId":129839,"journal":{"name":"International Commentary on Evidence","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116560453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}