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A
- abused person syndrome: § 7.06
- accomplice corroboration: § 6.09
- admission by party: § 8.03
- adopted statement, admission by: § 8.05
- affidavit of service: § 3.31
- agriculture inspection certificate: § 3.29
- alibi, impeachment of: § 6.25
- anatomically correct dolls: § 11.05
- ancient documents: § 8.07
- ancient maps: § 3.22
- appearance or condition exhibited: § 11.11
- appellate review: art. 12
- attorney-client privilege: § 5.03
- authenticity & identification: art. 9
B
- ballistics evidence: § 7.19
- ban on witnesses discussing testimony: § 6.03
- battered women's syndrome, see abused person syndrome: § 7.06
- benefit, impeachment of witness § 6.12.1
- best evidence rule, definitions: § 10.01
- best evidence rule: § 10.03
- best evidence, exception for admission of contents: § 10.09
- best evidence, exception for original missing: § 10.07
- best evidence, exception for reproductions, copies: §10.05
- best evidence, exception for voluminous material: § 10.11
- best evidence: art. 10
- bias, hostility, interest; impeachment by: § 6.13
- bill for services or repairs: § 3.33-a
- bite-mark evidence: § 7.19
- blood type evidence: § 7.19
- boundary_Lines § 8.23.1
- Bruton § 4.20
- business records: § 8.08
C
- certificat or affidavit of public officer: § 3.20
- certificates of conviction & fingerprints: § 3.60
- chain of custody: § 11.01
- character evidence & method of proof: § 4.09
- character evidence; affirmative defense of entrapment, duress & insanity § 4.10
- character evidence: justification defense § 4.11
- chemical tests: § 4.21
- child abuse syndrome: § 7.08
- child’s age determined: § 11.07
- chiropractor privilege: § 5.04
- circumstantial evidence: § 4.02
- civil lawsuit, impeach officer: § 6.16
- clergy privilege: § 5.05
- coconspirator statement: § 8.09
- collateral estoppel § 4.03
- collateral evidence: § 6.11
- competency of juror as witness or to impeach verdict § 6.02.5
- competency of a witness: § 6.01
- complainant's sexual conduct or dress: § 4.22
- completing & explaining relevant evidence: § 4.04
- composite sketch § 4.35.1
- condition, statement of, by unavailable declarant: § 8.42
- conditional relevance: § 4.05
- condoms: § 4.40
- confession, direct evidence: § 4.02
- connecting physical evidence: § 4.23
- consciousness of guilt: § 4.24
- consistent statement, admission of prior: § 8.31
- contracts in small print: § 4.13
- conveyance of real property without NY: § 3.24
- conviction, impeachment by: § 6.19
- corroboration of accomplice testimony § 6.09
- corroboration of defendant’s statements: § 4.46
- court call witness: § 1.11
- court examine witness: § 1.11
- court not overrule another judge: § 1.13
- court reconsider evidence rulings: § 1.13
- court’s role: art. 1
- criminal conduct, impeachment by: § 6.17
- cross-examination of a witness: § 6.06
- culpability of a third party: § 4.26
D
- damages, proof of: § 3.33-a
- dead man's statute: § 602.7
- death, presumed: § 3.27
- declaration of future intent: § 8.13
- defendant, presumptions accorded: § 3.05
- defendant; exclusion of distruptive defendant § 6.03.1
- defendant's right to present a defense: § 4.27
- defendant's statement implicating codefendant § 4.20
- defendant's testimony re: intent, knowledge, motive: § 4.28
- defense, defendant's right to present: § 1.07
- demonstrations: § 11.09
- demonstrative evidence: § 11.01
- dentist privilege: § 5.04
- direct evidence: § 4.02
- distruptive defendant, exclusion§ 6.03.1
- DNA evidence: § 7.21
- dolls, anatomically correct: § 11.05
- drug cases, expert testimony: § 7.13
- drugs destroyed: § 4.30
- duress; affirmative defense § 4.10
- dying declaration: § 8.15
E
- entrapment; affirmative defense § 4.10
- error, substantial for reversal: § 12.01
- evidence admitted for limited purpose: § 4.07
- evidence improperly obtained, impeachment by: § 6.14
- evidence of crimes & wrongs (Molineux): § 4.28
- evidence of guilty plea: § 4.32
- evidence rulings reconsider on retrial: § 1.13
- evidence rulings. reconsidered: § 1.07
- evidence, direct & circumstantial: § 4.02
- examination of witnesses: § 6.06
- exception or proviso: § 4.33
- excited utterance: § 8.17
- exclusion of relevant evidence: § 4.06
- exclusion of witness & ban on discussing testimony: § 6.03
- exclusion of distruptive defendant § 6.03.1
- exhibition of a person's appearance, condition, or capability: § 11.11:
- exhibits to the jury: § 11.10
- experiments: § 11.09
- expert in drug cases: § 7.13
- expert on reliability of confessions: § 7.15
- expert on reliability of identifications: § 7.17
- expert on scientific testimony: § 7.19
- expert on syndromes: §§ 7.06, 7.08, 7.10
- expert witness, impeachment § 6.26.1
- expert witness opinion: § 7.01
- extrinsic evidence: § 6.11
F
- false confession, expert witness: § 7.15
- fingerprint & palmprint evidence: § 7.19
- fingerprints, certificates of: § 3.60
- forfeiture by wrongdoing: § 8:19
- formal judicial admissions: § 8.23
- foundation question: § 1.09
- Frye: § 7.19
- fungible evidence: § 11.01
- future intent, declaration of: § 8.13
G
- gang membership & activity: § 4.34
- general objection: § 12.01
- guilty plea, evidence of: § 4.32
H
- habit evidence: § 4.12
- hair analysis evidence: § 7.19
- hearsay: art. 8
- hearsay defined: § 8.00
- hearsay, admissibility in sex offender civil proceedings § 8.03
- hearsay declarant, impeachment of : § 6.27
- hearsay forfeiture by wrongdoing: § 8.19
- hearsay limited by Sixth Amendment: § 8.02
- hearsay objection forfeited by wrongdoing: § 8.19
- hearsay or nonhearsay within hearsay: § 8.21
- hypnotized witness: § 6.02.1
I
- identification of defendant: § 4.35
- identification, composite sketch § 4.35.1
- identification, expert witness: § 7.17
- identification, first-time-in court: § 4.35.3
- identification, non-eyewitness of video or photo:§ 4.35.5
- illegally seized evidence, impeachment by: § 6.14
- illness, statement of, by unavailable declarant: § 8.42
- immoral conduct, impeachment by: § 6.17
- impeach verdict via juror § 6.02.5
- impeachment: art. 6
- impeachment, authorized & provable by extrinsic evidence: § 6.11
- impeachment by benefit to witness: § 6.12
- impeachment by bias, hostility, interest: § 6.13
- impeachment by evidence improperly obtained: § 6.14
- impeachment by inconsistent statement: § 6.15
- impeachment by misconduct: § 6.17
- impeachment by prior conviction: § 6.19
- impeachment by recent fabrication: § 6.20
- impeachment by religious belief: § 6.21
- impeachment by prior omission of details:§ 6.25(2)
- impeachment by reputation for untruthfulness: § 6.23
- impeachment by silence: § 6.24
- impeachment of alibi: § 6.25
- impeachment of expert: § 6.26
- impeachment of hearsay declarant: § 6.27
- impeachment of law enforcement officer, : § 6.16
- impeachment of one's own witness: § 6.15
- impeachment of verdict § 6.02.5
- improperly obtained evidence, impeachment by: § 6.14
- in limine objections: § 12.01
- incompetency of witness to testify vis-a-vis deceased: § 6.02.7
- incompetency of witness to testify vis-à-vis mentally ill person: § 6.02.1
- inconsistent statement, impeachment by: § 6.15
- inference of negligence (Res Ipsa Loquitur): § 3.02
- infancy, competency to testify: § 6.01
- informal judicial admissions: § 8.23
- insanity defense; affirmative defense § 4.10
- intent; evidence of mental disease or defect to negate: § 4.37
- intent, knowledge, motive; defendant's testimony of: § 4.27
- interpreter for party or witness: § 6.04
- intoxication: § 4.36
J
- joint tortfeasor, payment by: § 4.17
- judge as a witness, incompetent: § 6.02.3
- judgment of conviction, certificates of: § 3.60
- judicial finding, officer testified falsely: § 6.16
- judicial notice of facts: § 2.01
- judicial notice of law: § 2.03
- judicial notice of map information: § 2.05
- judicial notice: art. 2
- joror as witness or to impeach verdict § 6.02.5
- justice of the peace proceedings, proof of: § 3.41
- justification defense: § 4.10
K
- knowledge, intent, motive; defendant's testimony of: § 4.27
L
- lack of record: § 3.21
- law enforcement officer, impeachment of: § 6.16
- lay witness, opinion requirements: § 7.03
- leading questions: § 6.06
- liability insurance: § 4.15
- library privilege: § 5.09
- lie detector: § 7.19
- limited admissibility of evidence: § 4.07
M
- map information, judicial notice of: § 2.05
- market reports: § 8.24
- marriage certificate: § 3.26
- medical & other expenses, payment of: § 4.18
- medical diagnosis or treatment, statement for: § 8.43
- medical, diagnostic test results: § 7.19
- mental disease or defect, competency to testify: § 6.01
- mental disease or defect evidence to negate intent: § 4.37
- mental health law art 10, hearsay admissibility § 8.03
- misconduct, impeachment by: § 6.17
- missing person: § 3.27
- missing witness: § 6.10
- mode of proceedings error: § 12.01
- Molineux: § 4.38
- motive, intent, knowledge; defendant's testimony of: § 4.27
- motive to commit an offense: § 4.39
N
- negligence, inference of (Res Ipsa Loquitur): § 3.02
- nurse privilege: § 5.04
O
- oath or affirmation to testify: § 6.05
- objection to preserve error for review: § 12.01
- offers to compromise: § 4.16
- officer testified falsely, judicial finding: § 6.16
- omission of details given before trial, impeachment by § 6.25(2)
- opening the door: § 4.08
- opinion evidence: art. 7
- opinion of expert witness: § 7.01
- opinion of lay witness: § 7.03
- opioid antagonists: § 4.42
P
- pain, statement of, by unavailable declarant: § 8.42
- parent-child privilege § 5.50
- party admission: § 8.03
- past recollection recorded: § 8.25
- patently identifiable evidence: § 11.01
- payment by joint tortfeasor: § 4.17
- payment of medical & other expenses: § 4.18
- pedigree: § 8.27
- penal or pecuniary interest, statement against: § 8.11
- person's appearance, condition, or capability exhibited: § 11.11
- personal knowledge of witness required: § 6.07
- photometric testimony: § 7.19
- physical, connect to defendant: § 4.23
- physician privilege: § 5.04
- podiatrist privilege: § 5.04
- polygraph examination: § 7.19
- population certificate: § 3.30
- preliminary questions: § 1.09
- present sense impression: § 8.29
- preservation of error: § 12.01
- presumed innocent: § 3.05
- presumption of regularity § 3.07
- presumption of suggestive identification: § 3.05
- presumption of vindictiveness: § 3.05
- presumptions accorded criminal defendant: § 3.05
- presumptions in civil proceedings: § 3.01
- presumptions in criminal proceedings: § 3.03
- presumptions: art. 3
- previous conviction, proof of: § 4.44
- prima facie records: art. 3
- prior misconduct, impeachment by: § 6.17
- prior consistent statement, admission of: §8.31
- prior inconsistent statement, admission of: § 8.33
- prior judgment of conviction, admission of: § 8.35
- prior testimony in a civil proceeding, admission of: § 8.36
- prior testimony in criminal proceedings, admission of: § 8.37
- privileged communications transmitted electronically: § 5.48
- privileges: art. 5
- probative value outweighed: § 4.06
- prompt outcry: § 8.38
- proof of previous conviction: § 4.44
- proviso or exception: § 4.33
- psychologist privilege: § 5.07
- public record or document: § 3.20
R
- radar speedometer results: § 7.19
- rape crisis counselor privilege. § 5.10
- rape trauma syndrome: § 7.10
- real evidence: § 11.01
- real property without NY, conveyance of: § 3.24
- reals & demonstrative evidence: art. 11
- rebuttal & surrebuttal evidence: § 1.07
- recall witness: § 1.07
- recent fabrication, impeachment by: § 6.20
- reconsideration of evidence rulings: § 1.07
- record, not found: § 3.21
- re-cross-examination: § 6.06
- redirect: § 6.06
- refreshing a witness' recollection: § 6.08
- relevant evidence, excluded § 4.06
- relevant evidence: § 4.01
- religious belief, impeachment by: § 6.21
- remedial measures: § 4.19
- reopen party’s case: § 1.07
- reputation evidence: § 4.09; § 6.23 [impeachment by reputation]
- reputation for untruthfulness, impeachment by: § 6.23
- reputation for truthfulness : § 6.23
- res gestae (verbal act): § 8.45
- res ipsa loquitur: § 3.02
- retrial, reconsider evidence rulings: § 1.13
S
- scientific testimony: § 7.13
- scope & manner of examination of witnesses: § 6.06
- self-incrimination privilege: § 5.01
- sex offender civil proceedings, hearsay admissibility § 8.03
- sexual conduct or dress of complainant: § 4.22
- silence, impeachment by: § 6.24
- Sixth Amendment limit on hearsay: § 8.02
- social worker privilege: § 5.08
- specific objection: § 12.01
- spoliation § 4.18.1
- spousal privilege: § 5.02
- state of mind:
- ---via defendant's testimony § 4.28
- ---of a person via hearsay § 8.41
- statement against penal or pecuniary interest: § 8.11
- statement of pain, condition by unavailable declarant: § 8.45
- statement made for medical diagnosis or treatment: 99
- statement uttered not for its truth: § 8.00
- statements of defendants, corroboration: § 4.46
- stipulation: § 1.07
- subject to connection: § 4.05
- substitute judge: § 1.13
- surveyor standard of measurement: § 3.34
T
- testimonial statements: § 8.02
- title insurance search: § 3.23
- trial, reconsider evidence rulings: § 1.13
U
- UCC article 9 statements: § 3.25
V
- verbal act § 8.47
- vicious conduct, impeachment by: § 6.17
- viewing of premises: § 11.15
- vindictiveness, presumption: § 3.05
- visual, graphic, or sound aid: § 11.03
- voice spectrographic evidence: § 7.19
- voluntary statement, when for impeachment only § 6.14
W
- weather conditions: § 3.28
- witness: art. 6
- witness, called by court: § 1.11
- witness, competency: § 6.01
- witness, examined by court: § 1.11
- witness, exclusion & ban on discussing testimony: § 6.03
- witness, missing § 6.10
- witness, recall by court: § 1.07
- witness, refreshing recollection: § 6.08
- witness, scope & manner of examination: § 6.06
- wrongdoing, forfeits hearsay objection: § 8