Add to ORKGA central principle of U.S. law is that individuals should be judged in court based on their actions and not on their character. Rule 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence therefore prohibits evidence of an individual’s previous acts to prove that the individual acted in accordance with a certain character or propensity. But courts regularly deviate from or altogether ignore this rule, resulting in arbitrariness and judgments based on an individual\u27s prior acts rather than on evidence regarding the events at issue in a case.In this Article, I argue that at the center of the unpredictability surrounding the rule against character evidence is a type of evidence that I refer to as “objective-chance evidence”--that is, evidence regarding othe...
The object of this article is to identify what makes evidence unfairly prejudicial. The first part a...
The admission of a criminal defendant’s prior bad acts can be a powerful tool for attaining a convic...
It is a fundamental principle of the American justice system that a defendant should be judged on th...
A central principle of U.S. law is that individuals should be judged in court based on their actions...
Courts frequently depart from Federal Rule of Evidence 404, which prohibits evidence of a person’s p...
The Federal Rules of Evidence purport to prohibit character evidence, or evidence regarding a defend...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), which governs the admissibility of other-acts evidence, is a mess, ...
The federal courts\u27 current approach to character evidence is widely recognized as problematic. A...
The uniform evidence legislation, unlike the common law, allows the accused to claim a good char-act...
This article first examines how Minnesota’s character evidence doctrine developed, with a particular...
This Note argues that, in a prosecution for a violation of a specific intent criminal statute, the g...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404 severely limits the government’s ability to offer evidence of a defenda...
Article IV of the Federal Rules of Evidence includes several rules that prohibit the use of specifie...
The evidence rules have well-established, standard textual meanings—meanings that evidence professor...
The problems of character evidence resolved by the new Federal Rules are problems that involve the...
The object of this article is to identify what makes evidence unfairly prejudicial. The first part a...
The admission of a criminal defendant’s prior bad acts can be a powerful tool for attaining a convic...
It is a fundamental principle of the American justice system that a defendant should be judged on th...
A central principle of U.S. law is that individuals should be judged in court based on their actions...
Courts frequently depart from Federal Rule of Evidence 404, which prohibits evidence of a person’s p...
The Federal Rules of Evidence purport to prohibit character evidence, or evidence regarding a defend...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), which governs the admissibility of other-acts evidence, is a mess, ...
The federal courts\u27 current approach to character evidence is widely recognized as problematic. A...
The uniform evidence legislation, unlike the common law, allows the accused to claim a good char-act...
This article first examines how Minnesota’s character evidence doctrine developed, with a particular...
This Note argues that, in a prosecution for a violation of a specific intent criminal statute, the g...
Federal Rule of Evidence 404 severely limits the government’s ability to offer evidence of a defenda...
Article IV of the Federal Rules of Evidence includes several rules that prohibit the use of specifie...
The evidence rules have well-established, standard textual meanings—meanings that evidence professor...
The problems of character evidence resolved by the new Federal Rules are problems that involve the...
The object of this article is to identify what makes evidence unfairly prejudicial. The first part a...
The admission of a criminal defendant’s prior bad acts can be a powerful tool for attaining a convic...
It is a fundamental principle of the American justice system that a defendant should be judged on th...