Table of Contents -- Evidence: A Structured Approach

Contents
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Monica S. Lewinsky, Tell Mama All About It Not
Without a Lawyer: Parents and children shouldn’t be
required to testify against each other 599
Chapter 9: Burdens of Proof and Presumptions 603
A. Burdens of Proof 603
1. Introduction 603
2. Burden of Persuasion 603
a. Specifying the Quantum of Evidence 603
b. Identifying the Party That Bears the Burden 604
3. Burden of Production 604
B. Presumptions 608
1. Inferences and Presumptions 609
2. A Word about “Conclusive” or
“Irrebuttable” Presumptions 609
3. Why We Use Presumptions 610
4. How Presumptions Operate: Some Terminology 611
5. Causing a Presumption to Take Effect 611
6. Rebutting Presumptions 612
DeFeo v. Merchant 612
a. What If the Opponent Does Nothing 614
b. What If the Opponent Only Challenges
One or More of the Foundational Facts 615
c. What If the Opponent Only Challenges
the Presumed Fact 615
d. What If the Opponent Challenges Both the
Foundational and the Presumed Facts 617
e. A Caveat 617
7. Conflicting Presumptions in the Same Case 618
8. Presumptions in Criminal Cases 619
9. Presumptions under the Federal
Rules of Evidence 619
Appendix A: The Federal Rules of Evidence 623
Appendix B: Unadopted Federal Rules of Evidence 763
Table of Cases 773
Table of Federal Rules of Evidence 777
Table of Authorities 781
Index 793