Unit 5—Overview of the Federal Rules of Evidence
The law of evidence is a set of rules and principles that govern the admissibility of evidence into various types of judicial and administrative proceedings. Evidence is any matter, verbal, physical or electronic that can be used to support the existence of a factual proposition. One of its main purposes is to protect the jury from being misled.
There are two basic categories of evidence, direct and circumstantial. Within these general groups…
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