What's the Rule Number?
This rule provides the definition of hearsay
What is Rule 801?
This is the most lightly enforced requirement of expert testimony
What are qualifications?
This Rule 404(b) permissible purpose applies when an earlier, inextricably intertwined incident helps us understand a party's mental state in the current case
What is motive?
Under Rule 801(a), a document from this device will not constitute hearsay?
What is a computer (or any non-human device)?
This is Professor Sundby's favorite rule
What is Rule 403?
This Rule provides a hearsay exception for present sense impressions
What is Rule 803(1)?
Daubert switched the locus of decision making from here to the judge
What is the scientific community?
This Rule 404(b) permissible purpose applies when an earlier act shows a party had the ability to carry out a complex, technical task
What is knowledge?
Hearsay within hearsay is admissible, so long as it meets the requirements of this rule
What is Rule 805?
Professor Sundby has three of these a day, and used to have six
What are cups of coffee?
The rule provides a series of hearsay exceptions for unavailable witnesses?
What is Rule 804?
This is the primary method of authenticating pictures or videos which noone saw
What is silent witness?
This allegation, which claims that a witness is slanting her testimony in favor of one party, is not subject to the character evidence rules
What is bias?
Rule 804(b)(2) provides an exception for this spooky type of hearsay statement
What is a dying declaration?
Most of Professor Sundby's friends are friends with him because he can cook this Texas specialty
What is brisket?
This Rule provides "form" requirements for character evidence offered through Rule404(a)(2)
What is Rule 405?
The Rules of Evidence - while undoubtedly infallible - must yield if they unduly interfere with this.
What is a defendant’s due process right to present a defense?
A defendant can open the door and introduce a character trait about himself, so long as that character trait has this quality
What is pertinent?
Rule 804(b)(6) provides a hearsay exception for when a party does this to a witness
What is wrongfully makes them unavailable?
Professor Sundby has a 5ft x 4ft painting of two of these animals in his living room?
What are donkeys?
This Rule deals with settlement negotiations
What is Rule 408?
This is one of the few types of evidence that the judge does not have discretion to exclude, unless “stale"
What are convictions for crimes of dishonesty?
A party can only introduce this type of character evidence after a witness's character for truthfulness has been attacked.
What is evidence bolstering a witness's character for truthfulness?
In criminal cases for statements against penal interest, Rule 804(b)(3) requires witness unavailability, a statement against penal interest, and this third element
What are corroborating circumstances?
Professor Sundby has never finished a standalone marathon, but has completed one of these
What is an Ironman?