Structure of the process of witness interrogation

Garcia-Jaramillo v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 604 F.2d 1236, 1238 (9th Cir. 1979).Intimate sexual acts between marital partners do not constitute "confidential marital communications" for purposes of the marital secrets privilege, the confidential marital communications privilege.

Presley v. Lakewood Engineering and Mfg. Co., 553 F.3d 638, 643 (8th Cir. 2009) ("district court can weigh 'whether the expertise was developed for litigation or naturally flowed from the expert's research'").When considering whether some putatively scientific or expert evidence is sufficiently reliable to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or a comparable State rule for the admissibility of scientific or expert evidence, the trial court may consider whether the expert or scientific evidence, principle, or method was developed by a party or its agent in anticipation of litigation.

Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, pin? (1997).Evidence that helps tell a factual story in an intelligible way or that puts the evidence or the issues in the case in a meaningful or intelligible context is "relevant."