General Principles
This rule determines whether evidence is admissible based on its tendency to make a fact more or less probable.
What is relevance?
Anyone with personal knowledge of a matter and willing to swear an oath to tell the truth is considered this.
What is competent to testify?
A statement made outside of court that is offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted is called this.
What is hearsay?
This privilege protects confidential communications between spouses.
What is spousal privilege?
Evidence is relevant if it meets these two criteria.
What is probative (tends to make a fact more or less probable) and material (the fact is of consequence in determining the action)?
Evidence that directly proves a factual proposition is known as this.
What is direct evidence?
This statute limits a witness's ability to testify about transactions involving deceased individuals.
What is the Dead Man's Statute
Statements offered to show the declarant's state of mind are not considered hearsay for this reason.
Communications made to obtain legal advice are protected under this privilege.
What is attorney-client privilege?
Character evidence can be introduced for this non-character purpose under the MIMIC rule.
What is motive, intent, absence of mistake, identity, or common plan or scheme?
This type of evidence indirectly proves a factual proposition through inferences.
What is circumstantial evidence?
This process challenges a witness's testimony and credibility
Prior statements of identification by a witness are admissible as this type of evidence.
What is substantive evidence?
This privilege applies to confidential communications made to clergy members
What is clergy-penitent privilege?
This type of evidence is admissible to show a person's habit or routine practice.
What is habit evidence?
Evidence will not be admissible if its probative value is substantially outweighed by these factors.
What are unfair prejudice, confusion, misleading the jury, undue delay, wasting time, or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence?
These three grounds can be used to impeach a witness.
What are dishonesty, bias, and sensory competence?
A statement is not hearsay if it is used for a purpose other than proving the truth of the matter asserted, such as this.
What is showing the effect on the person who heard it?
This privilege protects communications between a patient and a mental health professional.
What is psychotherapist-patient privilege?
Evidence of prior crimes or bad acts is admissible for these purposes, but not to show character.
What are motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake?
Evidence of a person's general personality trait or propensity is generally inadmissible unless it meets these criteria.
What is when character is an issue in the case or for impeachment purposes?
A witness can be rehabilitated after impeachment by these three methods.
What are explanation, prior consistent statement, or reputation/opinion evidence of character for truthfulness?
This type of hearsay involves a statement containing another statement that must each conform to a hearsay exception to be admissible.
What is multiple hearsay?
This rule generally prevents the introduction of evidence about sexual behavior or predisposition of a rape victim in criminal cases.
What is the Rape Shield Law
This legal doctrine presumes that evidence destroyed by a party would have been adverse to that party.
What is spoliation of evidence?