Memorandum To: From: Date: 08/31/2012 Re: Laws of Evidence Assignment #2 Statement of Assignment You have asked me to analyze and determine whether the evidence that prosecution would like to introduce at trial can be admitted based on the Federal Rules of Evidence. Pursuant to your request‚ this memo includes my analysis‚ reasoning‚ and conclusions regarding the admissibility of such evidence. Statement of Facts The defendant was prosecuted for the murder of his wife. The victim’s body
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Marijuana The pros and cons of using marijuana as medicine The pros and cons of using marijuana as medicine can be established from a quote from page 63 of the book Marijuana‚ Noah Berlatsky‚ book editor‚ which has an excerpt from Bill McCarberg’s book “Marijuana and Pain Management” saying “Numerous studies have now established that cannabinoids help lessen pain and affect a wide range of symptoms and bodily functions.” Bill McCarberg‚ founder of the Chronic Pain Management Program for Kaiser
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The Battle of Marijuana "A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response... In strict medical terms‚ marijuana is far safer than many of the foods we commonly consume. For example‚ eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison‚ it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death." - DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young Opponents of legalization
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Marijuana Marijuana is a dangerous drug known throughout the world; it is not to be trifled with. Marijuana is also called "grass‚" "pot‚" "reefer‚" "joint‚" "hashish‚" "cannabis‚" "weed‚" and "Mary Jane" across the globe. It’s been sold for medical reasons as well as other purposes. It’s a typical herbal form of cannabis consists of the flowers and subtending leaves and stalks of mature pistillate of female plants. The resinous form of the drug is known as hashish‚ or merely as hash‚ a drug
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Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose‚ and it has a wide variety of therapeutic applications‚ including: • Relief from nausea and appetite loss; • Reduction of intraocular (within the eye) pressure; • Reduction of muscle spasms; and • Relief from chronic pain. Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of the following conditions: AIDS. Marijuana can reduce the nausea‚ vomiting‚ and loss of appetite
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secondary evidence was tendered and admitted. An objection was taken to its admission; Held: That such evidence was properly admitted and that the provision in the relevant statute “that no statement made by any person in answer to any question put by the Commission shall‚ except in cases of indictment for perjury committed in such answers‚ be admissible in evidence in any proceedings‚ civil or criminal” was not applicable‚ and did not prevent the admissibility of such evidence. In the
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According to the Evidence Act Cap 6‚ evidence denotes the means by which any alleged matter or facts the truth of which is submitted to investigations‚ approved or disapproved‚ admissions‚ presumption of law and observations by courts in the judicial capacity as per section 2[1]d of the act. Rules of evidence refer to the procedure of admitting relevant facts by courts of law and in general they are referred to as Relevancy and Admissibility of Evidence According to section 4‚ it may be given from
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1. Hearsay evidence rule in Malaysia The general hearsay rule is that a statement made by a person not called as a witness is inadmissible to prove the truth of the facts stated and extends to oral evidence as to statements in documents.1 Where oral evidence is relied on‚ it must be direct in all cases.2 Section 603 has thus codified the rule against hearsay evidence. “Hearsay” does not mean that no witness can be allowed to depose anything which he has heard said by anyone else.4 It is secondary
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Evidence-Based Practice Matrix of Ten Pieces of Primary Research on One Topic Related to Nursing Authors Dihle‚A.‚Bjolseth‚G.‚Hels eth‚S. WattWatson‚ J.‚Stevens‚B.‚ Garfinkel ‚P.‚Streiner‚D.‚ Gallop‚ R. Bostrom‚B.‚ Sandh‚M.‚ Lundberg‚D.‚ Fridlund‚ B. Chung‚J.‚ Lui‚J. Resource/Database Journal of Clinical Nursing Academic Search Complete Journal of Advanced Nursing Academic Search Complete Journal of Advanced Nursing Academic Search Complete Nursing and Health Sciences Academic Search Complete
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EVIDENCE OUTLINE INTRODUCTION -Basics of Evidence 1 -Process of Proof & the Adversarial System 1 -Making and Meeting Objections 1 -Common Objections 2 RELEVANCE -Relevant Evidence 2 -Stipulations 2 -Components of Relevant Evidence 2 -Balancing Test 2 -Proposition 8 2 EVIDENCE EXCLUDED BY EXTRINSIC POLICIES CHARACTER EVIDENCE -Types of Character Evidence 3 -Character Trait at Issue 3 -Conduct in Conformity & Exceptions 3 -Relevant Non-Propensity Purpose 4
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