Day 7 - January 12, 1998

Lara's List

• 7.1-- Susan Smith car sinking.
• 7.2-- Rodney King video.
• 7.3-- Hearsay problems: Problem 18 (arsenic and old rats); Murder in the Ajax Building; Mount Diablo.
• 7.4-- The dying declaration exception; explaining the hearsay exceptions via Wigmore's rationalism and rhetorical analysis.
• 7.5-- Rule 801: the definition of "statement." Halberstam story as vehicle for distinguishing between non-verbal statements and other actions.
• 7.6-- Statements of party opponent.
• 7.7-- Vinny demonstrates the lawyer's task at trial: showing that the opponent's "bricks" are paper-thin.
• 7.8-- Group t-shirts? Invitation for class comment.
• 7.9-- Washington v. Swan video.