Wisconsin Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

Wisconsin Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

Updated March 2025. Rules 905.03 and 905.095 amended in 2024. Rule 905.04 amended in 2023. The Wisconsin Rules of Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations (6" x 9") was designed to be brought to court and be at your side in the office. The "added value" to this book is a 16 page section on making and responding to common objections (including a discussion of the 15 most common objections and a list of 60 common trial objections) and over 60 pages on evidentiary foundations and impeachment - including 25 examples of foundations for introducing physical, electronic, hearsay, and social media evidence, a discussion on differing standards for authenticating digital evidence, and sample impeachment transcripts. This handbook includes foundations for introducing a photograph, diagram, real evidence, illustrative aids, a contract, refreshing memory, writing used to refresh memory, refreshing memory with a leading question, recorded recollection (author’s rule), business records - custodian of records, business records, self-authenticating business record, demonstrative evidence - similar to the real item, impeachment by prior written inconsistent statement, impeachment by omission, impeachment by inconsistent oral deposition (both short form and long form), impeachment by inconsistent oral statement, learned treatises on direct exam, learned treatises on cross exam, voicemail and phone conversations, digital evidence (electronically stored information – ESI), email (both outgoing and incoming), text message, social media (X, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter), internet website web posting, incoming fax, and for an expert opinion. The author is a former Detroit criminal trial lawyer, a full-time law professor for over 50 years - a professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii for 47 years and 5 years at Wayne State Law School in Detroit. His students, under his supervision, at Wayne State and Hawaii have represented real clients in real cases every year he has been teaching. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of the Law School's Clinical Program since 1978. He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. This handbook, and other similar handbooks, were inspired by handbooks he created in 2019 for a workshop for Pacific Island Judges from American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. He has published over 135 evidence handbooks for all 50 U.S. states, territories, and affiliated jurisdictions, the federal and military rules of evidence, Asian, South Asian, Pacific Island and African countries, Australian states, Canadian provinces, and the United Kingdom. He has also published two cartoon captioning contest books on the topics of trial evidence and negotiations & ADR. And don’t miss his book on breaking impasses in negotiation and mediation, called Negotiation and Mediation Communication Gambits for Breaking Impasses and More.