Program Fee:$99
CPCS approved for 3 hours of credit from the Mental Health Litigation, Adult Criminal Trial, Youth Advocacy Division (YAD), Children and Family Law (CAFL) and Post-Conviction panels.
Presented by members of the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law which produced the just released 2015 Massachusetts Guide to Evidence
Appeals Court Justice Peter W. Agnes, Chair, SJC Evidence Committee
Prof. Philip K. Hamilton, New England Law, Member, SJC Evidence Committee
Attorney Elizabeth N. Mulvey, Crowe & Mulvey, Member, SJC Evidence Committee
Presented by members of the SJC Advisory Committee on Evidence, this program will first be given to judges as part of the release of the 2015 Edition of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence.
As a recent article in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly noted, changes in the 2015 Massachusetts Guide to Evidence are “extensive” and “substantive.” The 2015 Guideincludes three entirely new sections, substantial revisions in another, and incorporates 45 new SJC and Appeals Court cases, plus restyles certain text to be consistent with the Federal Rules of Evidence. This CLE will concentrate on these new and revised topics:
- “Restyling” of the Guide
- Admissibility of Police Reports
- Opening Statements and Closing Arguments
Restitution - Evidentiary Issues in Care and Protection Cases
- Other Bad Acts
- Eyewitness Identification (including Commonwealth v. Crayton and other recent decisions)
**Special offer: The Supreme Judicial Court has designated the Flaschner Judicial Institute as the exclusive publisher of the
“OFFICIAL PRINT EDITION” of the
MASSACHUSETTS GUIDE TO EVIDENCE distributed to every judge in Massachusetts. The goal is to have both the trial bar and the bench “on the same page” of the SJC’s authoritative bench guide to evidence. Since this program will reference the
Guide’s new and revised sections the Flaschner Institute will sell registrants the new 2015 edition at the discounted price of $34 – it usually sells for $79.
Registrants for this program acknowledge that during the program their photographic or videographic images may be incidentally taken; registrants agree that the submission of their registrations for this program constitutes their written consent to the Social Law Library’s use of any such image in print and online materials solely for promotion of the Library’s noncommercial CLE seminars and other educational events and activities.
Same day registrations are $5.00 extra. Registration fees are non-refundable. Call 617-226-1361 for questions.