Character Evidence on Trial: From Confusion to Clarity, Part 1
This course is provided free of charge to active judges through an NJC scholarship.
199
Days & Times
11 a.m. PDT/Noon MDT/1 p.m. CDT/2 p.m. EDT
Course Location
Online
Course Fees
This course is provided free of charge to active judges through an NJC scholarship.
$199
Courts at every level have struggled to separate and apply evidence rules that impact character resulting in a voluminous body of inconsistent and unclear judicial opinions. Some of the confusion, which results from the bungled use of the word “character” itself, is clarified by differentiating between types and uses of character-related evidence. Thus, the goal of these two presentations is to rectify the misused vocabulary and to provide a framework for analyzing and ruling on character-related evidence.
This course is provided free of charge to active judges through an NJC scholarship. $199
During this course, you will learn to:
- Appreciate the rationale justifying and limiting the various uses of character-related evidence
- Employ a precise and accurate vocabulary to refer to character-related evidence
- Distinguish readily between rules impacting the use of character-related evidence and the type of character-related evidence
Courts at every level have struggled to separate and apply evidence rules that impact character resulting in a voluminous body of inconsistent and unclear judicial opinions. Some of the confusion, which results from the bungled use of the word “character” itself, is clarified by differentiating between types and uses of character-related evidence. Thus, the goal of these two presentations is to rectify the misused vocabulary and to provide a framework for analyzing and ruling on character-related evidence.