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 ...

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 ...

Recognizing the legal system's growing vulnerability to manipulated digital content, the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules has advanced a groundbreaking proposal: a new ...