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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, updated tables, and 70 new citations to recent cases. The new text and cases cover an array of topics, including:
Waiver of right to jury trial. §2:20
Excluding persons from the courtroom. This new section discusses the right to a public trial in civil and criminal cases; under what circumstances the court may close the courtroom; the court's authority to remove a spectator; a crime victim's right to be present; when a crime victim can be excluded, and more. §7:100
Scope of court's discretion. §1:30
Blanket objections. §1:130
Requesting an accommodation for physically or mentally impaired persons. §§2:80, 6:60
Discovery of the prosecution's jury selection notes during a defendant's Batson/Wheeler motion. §§2:190, 3:60
The presumption of prejudice from juror misconduct. §3:60
Subpoenas for the production of business records in criminal cases. §7:01
Admissibility of "creative expression"– music, dance, performance art, visual art, poetry, literature, film and other media. §10:210
Inadmissibility in civil actions of evidence that a person experienced "excited delirium." §10:210
Admitting evidence of a complainant's sexual conduct to attack credibility in civil cases. §11:10
Duty to preserve electronic evidence. §14:15
Expert testimony on statistics about behavior of child sexual abuse victims. §17:60
Seeking to disqualify a judge for cause. §19:14
Scope of sanctions for abuse of the discovery process including spoliation. §20:70
Defendant's burden on appeal when claiming court should have inquired into a conflict of interest. §20:80
Omission of an element of the crime and alternative theory error in jury instructions. §22:50<
