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Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Judge's Guide to Pretrial and Trial

A "guide [which] describes the substantive and procedural considerations that may arise when lawyers bring electronic equipment to the courtroom or use court-provided equipment for displaying or playing evidentiary exhibits or illustrative aids during trial" is presented (p.xiii). The following parts comprise this manual: courtroom technology -- an overview of Level One, Two, and Three technologies, common problems, and experiences to date; discovery -- general problems in discovery involving technology, discovery of documents, discovery of photographs, discovery of video, digital format materials, and Internet discovery repositories; pretrial -- disclosure by parties, equipment issues, making the record, videoconferencing for pretrial matters, and other uses of technology during pretrial; and trial -- preliminary matters, jury selection issues, preliminary jury instructions, opening statements, real-time reporting, videoconferencing witness testimony, use of illustrative aids, objections to evidentiary exhibits, objections to illustrative aids, closing argument, final jury instructions, jury review of computer-generated materials, and posttrial briefs. Appendixes include: more details about using technology; federal courts with courtroom technology; local rules with respect to courtroom technology; and sample pretrial order provisions. Accession Number: 020405

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