Add to ORKGThe American legal system has a long-standing ban against using character evidence to show a party’s propensity to act in conformity with that character. This rule has been especially stringent in the criminal system, where the notion is that when a criminal defendant is tried for a crime, that defendant should face trial only for the crimes charged. However, certain crimes, like sex crimes, can be incredibly difficult to prosecute and, accordingly, victim advocates have pushed for changes to these rules. The Federal Rules of Evidence (“FRE”) and several states have enacted rules that allow evidence of prior bad acts to be used as propensity evidence in prosecutions of sex crimes. In 2014, Missouri voters enacted a similar rule for prosecut...
Application of the propensity evidence rule in paedophilia cases starkly highlights the tension betw...
This note presents a Due Process analysis of Federal Rules of Evidence 413 and 414. These rules, whi...
In a significant break with traditional evidence rules and policies, Federal Rules of Evidence 413-4...
Americans consider child molestation and sexual assault among the most heinous crimes that one can c...
In this article, Edward Radetic discusses a change in the Missouri Constitution that allows for the ...
Evidence of other crimes, or uncharged misconduct evidence as it is commonly called, has been import...
Part II of this Note explores the issue in the case at hand, State v. Porter, which has finally abol...
American courts traditionally exclude evidence that a defendant has committed crimes other than the ...
Courts generally prohibit the admission of unfairly prejudicial evidence. The idea is that jurors sh...
PREDATORS AND PROPENSITY: THE PROPER APPROACH FOR DETERMINING THE ADMISSIBILITY OF PRIOR BAD ACTS EV...
In Missouri, to obtain a new trial based on juror misconduct, a two step process must be used. First...
This Note argues that, in a prosecution for a violation of a specific intent criminal statute, the g...
After a trial by jury, Jeffrey D. Long was convicted of forcibly raping and sodomizing Debbie Flower...
This article first examines how Minnesota’s character evidence doctrine developed, with a particular...
This Note scrutinizes the way in which the Supreme Court of Missouri resolved the issue of whether t...
Application of the propensity evidence rule in paedophilia cases starkly highlights the tension betw...
This note presents a Due Process analysis of Federal Rules of Evidence 413 and 414. These rules, whi...
In a significant break with traditional evidence rules and policies, Federal Rules of Evidence 413-4...
Americans consider child molestation and sexual assault among the most heinous crimes that one can c...
In this article, Edward Radetic discusses a change in the Missouri Constitution that allows for the ...
Evidence of other crimes, or uncharged misconduct evidence as it is commonly called, has been import...
Part II of this Note explores the issue in the case at hand, State v. Porter, which has finally abol...
American courts traditionally exclude evidence that a defendant has committed crimes other than the ...
Courts generally prohibit the admission of unfairly prejudicial evidence. The idea is that jurors sh...
PREDATORS AND PROPENSITY: THE PROPER APPROACH FOR DETERMINING THE ADMISSIBILITY OF PRIOR BAD ACTS EV...
In Missouri, to obtain a new trial based on juror misconduct, a two step process must be used. First...
This Note argues that, in a prosecution for a violation of a specific intent criminal statute, the g...
After a trial by jury, Jeffrey D. Long was convicted of forcibly raping and sodomizing Debbie Flower...
This article first examines how Minnesota’s character evidence doctrine developed, with a particular...
This Note scrutinizes the way in which the Supreme Court of Missouri resolved the issue of whether t...
Application of the propensity evidence rule in paedophilia cases starkly highlights the tension betw...
This note presents a Due Process analysis of Federal Rules of Evidence 413 and 414. These rules, whi...
In a significant break with traditional evidence rules and policies, Federal Rules of Evidence 413-4...