Civil litigators often overlook character evidence, assuming it to be inadmissible. But the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts do not impose a categorical ban on character evidence ...

From Turner v. State, decided Thursday by the Arkansas Supreme Court (in an opinion by Justice Shawn Womack): The evidence presented at trial establishes the following account of events. On April 26, ...

"‘The one ring to rule them all’ in "The Lord of the Rings" is the ultimate symbol of absolute power. There is no similar absolute ‘one rule to rule them all’ in trial law in Texas, but there is a ...

Today the Utah Supreme Court agreed with my argument that a defendant cannot compel a rape victim to testify at a "rape shield" hearing. Instead, the defendant must establish (if he can) the ...

Judge Victoria Kolakowski sensed something was wrong with Exhibit 6C. Submitted by the plaintiffs in a California housing dispute, the video showed a witness whose voice was disjointed and monotone, ...