1. When a state adopts the Federal Rules of Evidence as its model evidence code:

a. the state’s judges remain free to give a particular rule of evidence a different interpretation than might be given by a federal court.

b. state judges must look for federal court guidance when the judges interpret the state’s version of the Federal Rules of Evidence.

c. it must update the state’s version of the Federal Rules of Evidence whenever the Congress makes changes in evidence rules.

d. the state must adopt the complete version of the Federal Rules of Evidence and cannot adopt some parts and reject other provisions.

2. During the prosecution’s case in chief, the prosecutor:

a. determines which witnesses to call and in which order they should testify, because this is the prerogative of the prosecutor.

b. must consult with the judge concerning the order in which witnesses for the prosecution will be called.

c. determines the admissibility of all of the prosecution witness testimony.

d. Responses a and b both are correct statements.

3. Judicial notice, as a substitute for actual evidence, authorizes a judge to:

a. accept appropriate facts as being true, but allow contradictory evidence to dispute the fact that the judge accepted as being true.

b. tell the jury which facts the judge believes to be true so that the jury will not have to deliberate over those facts.

c. accept certain facts as being true so long as both parties in a criminal case stipulate to the truthfulness of those facts.

d. accept appropriate facts as being true without requiring one of the parties to offer formal proof of such facts.

4. Concerning geography and location, a trial judge may take judicial notice:

a. of the fact that a particular location described by witnesses was within the jurisdiction of her court where local persons familiar with the area would generally agree.

b. of the fact that two people first met at the corner of two described streets in Los Angeles, California, and that the two named streets intersected at right angles, when the court was sitting in Alabama.

c. that the height of a cell phone tower in her jurisdiction was 450 feet.

d. that drug trafficking generally occurred in an obscure alley within the jurisdiction of her court.

5. States that have adopted the Uniform Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act are required by the provisions of the law to have their courts judicially notice:

a. Canadian law.

 

b	the common law of sister states.

c. the statutes of sister states.

d. both b and c