CHAPTER 8 Witness Evidence

• Jurisdiction: United States

CHAPTER 8 Witness Evidence

I. Motion Authorities

A. Motion to Exclude Improper Expert Opinion

1. Suggested Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3. Supporting Authorities

a. Not Reliable
b. Hypothetical Questions
c. Inadmissible Hearsay

i. Opinions of Others
ii. Statements of Others
iii. Treatises, Documents, and Texts

d. Legal Questions

i. Compare: Ultimate Issues

e. Matters of Common Experience
f. Not Reasonably Relied on by Experts
g. Not Perceived or Personally Known
h. Speculation or Conjecture
i. Usurping Jury Function
j. Irrelevant Matters
k. Conclusory Testimony
l. Burden of Proof
m. Other Grounds

4. Opposing Authorities

a. Hearsay

i. Statements of Others
ii. Treatises, Documents, and Texts

b. Hypothetical Questions
c. Legal Questions vs. Ultimate Issues

B. Motion to Exclude Testimony of Nonqualified Expert

1. Suggested Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3. Supporting Authorities

a. Examples
b. Qualification of Experts in Health Care Liability Cases

i. Examples

c. Other Grounds

4. Opposing Authorities

a. Health Care Liability Cases

C. Motion to Exclude Opinion of Nonexpert

1. Supporting Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3. Supporting Authorities

a. Lack of Personal Knowledge
b. Legal Opinions
c. Not Based on Perceptions of Witness
d. Not Helpful to Jury
e. Speculative or Conjectural
f. Other Grounds

4. Opposing Authorities

a. Sanity/Mental Condition or Capacity
b. Health
c. Age, Size, Quality
d. Damages
e. Personal Knowledge
f. Causation
g. Hearsay

D. Motion to Exclude Testimony of Incompetent Witness

1. Suggested Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3. Supporting Authorities

a. Inability to Express or Tell Truth

i. Children

b. Lack of Mental Competence/Insanity
c. Lack of Personal Knowledge of Subject Matter
d. Other Grounds

4. Opposing Authorities

a. Children
b. Mental Competence/Insanity
c. Dead Man's Rule

E. Motion to Exclude Testimony of Judge, Arbitrator, Mediator, or Juror

1. Suggested Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3. Supporting Authorities—Judges

a. Arbitrators
b. Jurors

4. Opposing Authorities—Judges

a. Arbitrators
b. Jurors

F. Motion to Exclude Witness From Courtroom Prior to Testifying

1. Suggested Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3. Supporting Authorities
4. Opposing Authorities

a. Cannot Exclude a Party
b. Exclusion of Testimony Is Improper
c. Welfare of a Child

G. Motion to Exclude Comment on Exercise of Privilege Not to Testify

1. Suggested Motion Text
2. Motion Summary
3.

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