Get Your Evidence Admitted ! ! !

Dr. Graves does it again in this fine article about getting your evidence actually admitted. As he says in his fine Jurisdictionary legal self-help course, every case is won before the trial actually starts. No amount of fancy footwork by tricky lawyers will stand up where other side knows their facts and can prove them in court. The facts are proved by admissible evidence. Cases are based on evidence which is admitted. So you need to know this data in order to win your case…

Don't end up like this poor fellow!

Here he is in the heat of a trial. He has these documents he's been counting on to win his case. His problem is that he's trying to present them to the court for the first time on the day of the trial.

Big mistake!

He needs these documents to be admitted as evidence to win his case!

But, the other side objected to the documents.

The judge sustained the objection.

His documents are inadmissible as evidence!

Documents he's been counting on since the beginning of his big the case are not coming in!

He will lose ... needlessly!

He could have avoided last-minute objections at trial if he'd done just a few things before trial. These are things any average 8th grader can understand and do.

But, he wanted to be tricky. So, he hid his "evidence". He waited till the last minute, intending to "spring it" on his opponent at trial.

Bad idea!

Trial by ambush seldom succeeds!

If you aren't careful you could find yourself in the midst of a trial like this poor fellow, trying to convince a judge to allow critical documents to be admitted as evidence. You may have documents, photographs, audio recordings, video tape, or any number of things you "ASS-UME" are going to win the case for you ... but, if you don't get your evidence in before trial, you run the terrible risk of not being able to get them in at all.

Then you will lose ... when you could have won!

This happens waaaay too often!

You only get one bite at the trial apple.

Why not be fully prepared before trial?

How to get evidence admitted before trial is explained with simple illustrations and sample forms in my affordable 24-hour step-by-step Jurisdictionary self-help course.

But, read on to learn more today before ordering!

You must never wait until trial day to test evidence for admissibility.

You must never trust what a witness will say at trial.

You must never trust that a document will be admitted.

If you do, you're playing a dangerous game and risking everything for no advantage whatsoever.

If you make the fatal mistake of waiting till trial to show your documents and other things you're counting on to win the case, you're betting on the wrong horse!

You can authenticate your evidence before trial.

You can force the other side to admit the authenticity of your evidence before trial.

You can prevent last minute surprises.

We frequently hear people claiming, "I have all the evidence I need to win this case!"

But, when we press them for an explanation, they tell us they plan to wait till trial to present a photograph, survey map, letter, memorandum, email, or some other "evidence" they have in their possession ... confident their "evidence" will prove that they, and not the other fellow, should win.

Their error is that "evidence" they count on presenting at trial isn't "evidence" at all, because it isn't admissible!

"Evidence" that's inadmissible isn't evidence at all!

It's not difficult to authenticate evidence before trial, once you know how. But, even experienced lawyers make this mistake now and then.

I won several cases by objecting at the proper moment to stop opponents from presenting evidence they planned to offer at the last moment - evidence they could have easily authenticated before trial. I won. They lost.

Some forms of evidence are self-authenticating. Others are not. All documents and things require authentication.

Authenticate before trial.

If you do what I teach in my popular course, you may avoid the necessity of going to trial altogether.

There are several easy ways to authenticate evidence. These are explained fully in my affordable 24-hour course.

If you fail to authenticate your evidence before trial and show up for trial planning to present a letter from your Aunt Mable, an affidavit from a repair shop, a telephone bill, bank statement, canceled check, or other document or thing you've been counting on, believing it's "all you need to win", you will surely be disappointed when the judge sustains your opponent's objection and rules you cannot present what you thought was the essential key to your success!

Of course, I cannot tell you in a single Tips & Tactics newsletter all the ways you can authenticate evidence before trial, but you'll learn these things and much more in my 24-hour step-by-step Jurisdictionary self-help course.

Never count on surprise endings at trial. Surprises at trial are for Perry Mason, not you!

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Every winnable case can be won before trial if you follow the Jurisdictionary method.

Never assume the "evidence" in your briefcase will be admissible at trial unless you authenticate it before trial.