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Article
Bias Impeachment and the Proposed Federal Rules of Evidence
Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1972
Keywords
- Federal Rules of Evidence,
- impeachment
Abstract
In the fall of 1971 the Supreme Court's Advisory Committee presented to the Court the Proposed Federal Rules of Evidence. The Committee failed to include a rule on impeachment by bias, interest, or prejudice. In failing to include such a rule, the Committee bypassed the opportunity to reconcile a conflict over both the content and methodology of this form of impeachment. The authors, in an attempt to show the need for a rule dealing with bias impeachment, analyze the present decisional conflict in this area. They conclude by proposing a rule designed to add some uniformity to this highly persuasive method of impeachment.
Disciplines
Citation Information
61 Georgetown Law Journal 257 (1972).