Mock Trial Rules of Evidence Objections and Responses

Directing Farnsworth: You ask about Mr. Farnsworth's practice of checking ID first time around when selling alcohol, plaintiff objects

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Under RULE 406, we are permitted to ask about the witness's previous carding routine to show that on a particular instance, Mr. Farnsworth acted in accordance with this routine.

Directing Farnsworth: you ask about Danny Greene and if he seemed intoxicated, plaintiff objects

Under RULE 701, Mr. Farnsworth is a lay witness that can give rationally based perceptions (he has sold alcohol 9 YEARS, and can tell who is under the influence or not.

Farnsworth Crossed: Opposing council asks about Jacob and the little red truck

Under RULE 802, This is hearsay, that employee is not here to testify and Mr. Farnsworth cannot answer to what Jacob said.

Farnsworth Crossed: Opposing council asks ANYTHING about the Mercado Shooting.

Under RULE 401, The incident opposing council is trying to bring up, THE MERCADO INCIDENT, does not have a tendency to make Mr Farnsworth liability more or less probable and therefore not relevant. The incident does not involve alcohol, nor the sale of it, nor any witness other than Mr. Farnsworth, and is not admissable.

Directing Farnsworth: Opposing council objects under hearsay to something along the lines of “what the police officer said is hearsay, he is not here to testify”

Your honor, this is not meant to prove fact of the matter, but to show the affect of Rob’s death on Mr. Farnsworth