Analysis of evidence.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

2nd ed.

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Evidence (Law) -- United States.

Evidence (Law) -- Study and teaching -- United States.

Legal arguments.

1. Evidence and inference: some food for thought

2. Fact investigation and the nature of evidence

3. Principles of proof

4. Methods of analysis

5. The chart method

6. Outlines, chronologies, and narrative

7. Analyzing the decided case: anatomy of a cause celebre

8. Evaluating evidence

9. Probabilities, weight, and probative force

10. Necessary but dangerous: generalizations and stories in argumentation about facts

11. The principles of proof and the law of evidence

12. The trial lawyer's standpoint.

This extensively revised second edition is a rigorous introduction to the construction and criticism of arguments about questions of fact, and to the marshalling and evaluation of evidence at all stages of litigation. Most of the chapters in this new edition have been rewritten and the treatment of fact investigation, probabilities and narrative has been extended.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521673167

xxxii, 401 p.