NEW LAW BLOG: TRIAL AD NOTES

Well done blog featuring news items, cases, book reviews, opinions related to trial advocacy and to support University of Washington's Trial Advocacy program. There is a focus on Washington State. URL is: http://trialadnotes.blogspot.com.

STANDARD OF REVIEW FOR PROSECUTORIAL USE OF RACE EVIDENCE DURING TRIAL

This note by Peter Chung is in University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, v.38, no.1, 2004. The author warns that use of cultural evidence by prosecutors must be held to a higher standard of review. He feels that this stricter standard is necessary because it is more difficult to estimate its effect on jurors.

NEW DIRECTOR OF TRIAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS AT TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL

Maureen McCartney has been appointed director of trial advocacy programs at Temple University Law School. She served as assistant district attorney to Lynne Abraham, district attorney of Philadelphia, and will be responsible for the Law School's excellent trial advocacy programs.
Temple Times, Sept 1, 2005

HANDGUNS SHOWN IN OPENING STATEMENTS

In Commonwealth v. Parker, the prosecutor displayed a handgun (later to be used as evidence)in his opening statement. While the error was harmless in this case, it can be used to inflame the jury says Judge John T. Bender. It may prejudice the jury but there is no rule that would prohibit such a tactic. On the other side, Hugh Burns, chief of Phildelphia district attorney's appeals unit says it would not be prejudicial since the jury will be seeing the gun later.
From Legal Intelligencer 8/22/05

NEW ACQUISITIONS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO THE TRIAL ADVOCACY PROGRAM

CALL # KF 8958 L372.
TITLE Federal testimonial privileges.
IMPRINT [St. Paul, Minn.] : Thomson/West, c2003-


CALL # KF 224 S485 C68 2003.
AUTHOR Cotterill, Janet, 1968-
TITLE Language and power in court : a linguistic analysis of the O.J.
Simpson trial / Janet Cotterill.
IMPRINT Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003.


CALL # KD8400 .H6 2004.
AUTHOR Hostettler, John.
TITLE The criminal jury old and new : jury power from early times to
the present day / John Hostettler.
IMPRINT Winchester, Eng. : Waterside Press, c2004.


CALL # KF8968.25 .P75 2005.
AUTHOR Prichard, Fred, 1959-
TITLE Experts in civil cases : an inside view / Fred Prichard.
IMPRINT New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2005.


CALL # KF298 .U73 2005.
TITLE Urban lawyers : the new social structure of the bar / John P.
Heinz ... [et al.]
IMPRINT Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.


CALL # KF8965 .S25 2005.
AUTHOR Sales, Bruce Dennis.
TITLE Experts in court : reconciling law, science, and professional
knowledge / Bruce D. Sales, Daniel W. Shuman.
IMPRINT Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2005.


CALL # KF 8915 P67 2005.
AUTHOR Posey, Amy J.
TITLE Trial consulting / Amy J. Posey and Lawrence S. Wrightsman.
IMPRINT New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


CALL # KD7876 .S52 2005.
AUTHOR Shute, Stephen, 1955-
TITLE A fair hearing? : ethnic minorities in the criminal courts /
Stephen Shute, Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal.
IMPRINT Cullompton, Devon, Eng.; Portland, OR : Willan Pub., c2005.


CALL # KF336 .R486 2005.
AUTHOR Rhode, Deborah L.
TITLE Pro bono in principle and in practice : public service and the
professions / Deborah L. Rhode.
IMPRINT Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2005.


CALL # KF 228 A7 C4 1999 V.D.
TITLE A civil action [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures and
Paramount Pictures present a Wildwood Enterprises/Scott Rudin
production ; produced by Scott Rudin, Robert Redford, Rachel
Pfeffer.
IMPRINT Burbank, CA. : Touchtone Home Video 1999.

NEW ON WESTLAW

This may be of interest. It is new on Westlaw.

Database Name: Pennsylvania State and Federal Trial Court
Filings


Database Identifier: PA-FILING-ALL


Coverage
Coverage begins with 1991. A limited number of documents from
earlier years are available.


Content Highlights:


Selected, motions, trial court memoranda, trial pleadings and
other trial filings from the Pennsylvania state and federal
courts.