A veteran prosecutor and award-winning author explains the complexities of preparing the right "predicate" questions required to admit evidence in a criminal trial. In this highly readable and entertaining book--read by the author--topics include routine evidentiary issues like fingerprints, photographs, diagrams, business records, ballistics, toxicology results, autopsy findings, surveillance recordings, drug dog alerts, jail calls, confessions, and line-ups, to newer developments such as DNA, cell tower dumps, GPS location data, geofence search warrant results, license plate readers, digitally enhanced photographs, e-mails, text messages, social media postings, and hearsay under the forfeiture by wrongdoing doctrine.
