Editor’s Note: Identifying key digital evidence is only half the battle—ensuring that evidence is admissible in court is what ultimately matters. This article examines the legal standards that govern ...

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Evidence generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”) is making its way into courtrooms. As a result, the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee has proposed a new rule “to regulate the ...

Longtime readers will recall that every so often, I would go on a "rant" about how many federal judges were ignoring the text of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, as amended in 2000. Instead, they were ...

In 1995, Federal Rule of Evidence 413 became law. It states that “[in] a criminal prosecution in which a defendant is accused of a sexual assault, the court may admit evidence that the defendant ...

DNA evidence in a Baltimore rape and murder case analyzed by a probabilistic genotyping software was admissible under Maryland evidence rules, the state’s appellate court ruled Thursday. In a reported ...

The managing judge of the High Court battle that opened up the Post Office Horizon scandal has warned that while current rules on digital evidence need to change, they should not simply revert to ...

"This is to demonstrate that the appropriate use of illustrative aids, demonstrative evidence, and summaries of voluminous materials remains unclear," write Michael A. Kaplan and Christopher Dernbach ...

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