admissibility of evidence
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Seventy-nine-year-old Roger Schemer was tried and convicted in King County Superior Court for molesting a relative when she was seven years old. Trial testimony revealed that Scherner had also molested other young girls, all of them either family members or daughters of family friends, over a period of several decades. In addition to the victim's testimony, jurors heard four previous victims recount the abuse they had suffered as young girls. Their testimony was admitted under a new Washington evidence statute, section 10.58.090 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), which makes it easier for prosecutors to submit evidence of other sex offenses in sex-offense cases. When a defendant is charged with a sex offense, the new law allows evidence of other sex offenses to be admitted, notwit...
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In a case that significantly expands the scope of evidence that can be presented in a California employment discrimination and harassment trial, a Cal...
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This Article outlines the current questions surrounding the admissibility of hearsay forensic results (including lab reports, autopsies, and certifica...
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Criminal Law: admissibility of evidence; invited error; manifest weight of the evidence; extortion, assault; theft; attempt; robbery; threaten violence "against another
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In a case that significantly expands the scope of evidence that can be presented in a California employment discrimination and harassment trial, a Cal...
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The digital revolution has forever altered the way in which information is stored and communicated. Although oral testimony is offered in much the same form it has been for centuries, trial lawyers now have to deal with an array of evidence of a type that was almost unimaginable fifty years ago. Not only are most documents now stored on or generated by computers, but a variety of electronic data has found its way into the courtroom. This includes material downloaded from websites, e-mails, text messages, instant messages, data from GPS devices, computer animations and simulations, digital photos, and enhanced images. Some courts and commentators have cast a skeptical eye on electronic evidence, with some even urging that new standards need to be devised. By reviewing how courts have and...
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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine in its Ruling 12-rp/2011 of 20 October 2011 (the "Ruling") provided a binding interpretation of Article 62(3) of t...