Currently, the Federal Rules of Evidence assume that earnestly given testimony can be relied upon to be true in most situations, so long as that testimony is not inadmissible hearsay.

The New Jersey Rules of Evidence, like the Federal Rules of Evidence upon which they are modeled, are essentially exclusionary in nature. They primarily demarcate the boundaries of what is not ...

Longtime readers will recall that every so often, I would go on a "rant" about how many federal judges were ignoring the text of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, as amended in 2000.

Federal Rule of Evidence 803 alone lists 23 exceptions to the rule against hearsay and even more exceptions exist under Rules 804-807.

In 1963, the Supreme Court established a rule of evidence that is now well known to viewers of television courtroom dramas. In Brady vs. Maryland, it held that prosecutors must turn over to ...

[on] these new rules of evidence, in essence, that the Supreme Court just conjured up out of thin air, and will be applying ...

Maine, Unbound by the Rules of Evidence, Relies on ‘Hearsay’ To Disqualify the 45th President From a Place on the State’s Ballot in 2024. The frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president is ...