Publication Date
Spring 2019
Abstract
When the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence were adopted, they displaced all inconsistent case law existing at the time. Though the Rules retain a great deal of the evidence practice that preceded them, there is much in evidence practice that changed with their adoption. Rhode Island courts have consistently applied Rule 403 in a manner that comports with practice as it existed before the enactment of the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence. That practice, though, is inconsistent with the plain language of the Rule. These doctrines must be discarded.
Recommended Citation
Provencher, Matthew D.
(2019)
"Burying Evidence's Dead Hand,"
Roger Williams University Law Review: Vol. 24:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://docs.rwu.edu/rwu_LR/vol24/iss2/4