Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2016, Volume 29, Number 1
Content
- An Overview of Asbestos Litigation in California
- Demystifying Caci
- Editor's Foreword Golden Opportunity:a Fifth California Justice
- From the Section Chair a Non-Traditional Viewpoint
- Is That Your Final Judgment?
- Keeping Women in Civil Litigation Practice: Making it More Civilized
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Masthead
- McDermott On Demand: the Return of Dr.Arbuthnot
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Privacy Expectations in an Era of Drones
- Table of Contents
- Temporary Judges in California Superior Courts
- Ten Ways to Increase Your Persuasion Skills
- Write Your Papers Like You Try Your Cases
- Exhibits: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Exhibits: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
By John Derrick
The law is no stranger to fictions. For example, it indulges the notion that bells can be unrung when witnesses blurt out things they aren’t meant to say in front of juries. As the U.S. Supreme Court candidly admitted, "[t]he naive assumption that prejudicial effects can be overcome by instructions to the jury, all practicing lawyers know to be unmitigated fiction." (Krulewitch v. United States (1949) 336 U.S. 440, 453, citation omitted.) Yet the law nonetheless presumes that such instructions are followed.
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