Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2016, Volume 29, Number 1
Content
- Past Editors-in-Chief
- Privacy Expectations in an Era of Drones
- Exhibits: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
- From the Section Chair a Non-Traditional Viewpoint
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Foreword Golden Opportunity:a Fifth California Justice
- Demystifying Caci
- Masthead
- Ten Ways to Increase Your Persuasion Skills
- Litigation Section Executive Committee Past Chairs
- Is That Your Final Judgment?
- Temporary Judges in California Superior Courts
- Write Your Papers Like You Try Your Cases
- Keeping Women in Civil Litigation Practice: Making it More Civilized
- An Overview of Asbestos Litigation in California
- McDermott On Demand: the Return of Dr.Arbuthnot
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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