Document Type
Article
Publication Date
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
Constitutional Law
Digital Commons Citation
61 Georgetown Law Journal 257 (1972).