Add to ORKGIt is the thesis of this article that under the federal rules there are basically only two limitations on the use of extrinsic evidence to attack the credibility of a witness. First, the basic rules of relevance and considerations of judicial efficiency give the judge discretion to exclude evidence of irrelevant or collateral matters under Federal Rule of Evidence 401 and 403. Second, Rule 608(b) limits the use of extrinsic evidence of specific acts tending to show that the witness has the character of a liar or a truthteller. The first of these limitations is discretionary while the second is not. Except for these two limitations, federal courts can and do consider extrinsic evidence on a host of matters relating to the credibility of a ...
The author examines the Pennsylvania and federal rules governing the use of a witness\u27 prior crim...
The thirty-seven principal provisions that permit out-of-court statements to be admitted for their t...
The thirty-seven principal provisions that permit out-of-court statements to be admitted for their t...
This article mainly examines United States v. Delgado-Marrero, 744 F.3d 167 (1st Cir. 2014), to illu...
With the publication last March of the preliminary draft of the rules of evidence for the lower fede...
Rule 609 of the Federal Rules of Evidence allows a party to impeach a witness with his or her prior ...
Rule 609 of the Federal Rules of Evidence allows a party to impeach a witness with his or her prior ...
The question whether prior convictions of criminal offenses should be admitted as evidence to impeac...
Let\u27s start with how federal sausage is made. Recently, I read that the chief policymaking body s...
As any judge, lawyer or law student can attest, the rule against hearsay with its plethora of except...
Although the Federal Rules of Evidence are under consideration by Congress, it is unlikely that many...
Prof. Edward Imwinkelried, one of the country’s most renowned Evidence scholars, in a recent article...
Prof. Edward Imwinkelried, one of the country’s most renowned Evidence scholars, in a recent article...
A recent amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) expands the situations in which prior co...
The Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has held that evidence of a prio...
The author examines the Pennsylvania and federal rules governing the use of a witness\u27 prior crim...
The thirty-seven principal provisions that permit out-of-court statements to be admitted for their t...
The thirty-seven principal provisions that permit out-of-court statements to be admitted for their t...
This article mainly examines United States v. Delgado-Marrero, 744 F.3d 167 (1st Cir. 2014), to illu...
With the publication last March of the preliminary draft of the rules of evidence for the lower fede...
Rule 609 of the Federal Rules of Evidence allows a party to impeach a witness with his or her prior ...
Rule 609 of the Federal Rules of Evidence allows a party to impeach a witness with his or her prior ...
The question whether prior convictions of criminal offenses should be admitted as evidence to impeac...
Let\u27s start with how federal sausage is made. Recently, I read that the chief policymaking body s...
As any judge, lawyer or law student can attest, the rule against hearsay with its plethora of except...
Although the Federal Rules of Evidence are under consideration by Congress, it is unlikely that many...
Prof. Edward Imwinkelried, one of the country’s most renowned Evidence scholars, in a recent article...
Prof. Edward Imwinkelried, one of the country’s most renowned Evidence scholars, in a recent article...
A recent amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B) expands the situations in which prior co...
The Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has held that evidence of a prio...
The author examines the Pennsylvania and federal rules governing the use of a witness\u27 prior crim...
The thirty-seven principal provisions that permit out-of-court statements to be admitted for their t...
The thirty-seven principal provisions that permit out-of-court statements to be admitted for their t...