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Evidence Fall 2022

THE ADMISSIBILITY (AND INADMISSIBILITY) OF CHARACTER EVIDENCE

Dent Gitchel [FNa1], Copyright © 2012 by Arkansas Bar Association

This article provides a clear, plain-language description of character (propensity) evidence and will give you a baseline for understanding all of the propensity rules that will follow in the next few classes.  In other words, this article will give you an overview of the exceptions that you will read about for the next few classes.  (Note that the article is about Arkansas rules but they are substantively similar to the federal rules.)