OPTIONAL: Discussion of Character Evidence from: THE DISPARATE IMPACT OF THE MARYLAND RULES ON BLACK AND BROWN INDIVIDUALS

April 20, 2021

This Report was prepared in 2021 at the request of the Rules Review Subcommittee of the Maryland Judiciary’s Committee on Equal Justice. What's exciting is that the authors of this report are law students from two clinics at the Univ. of Maryland School of Law!

This excerpt includes the portion of the report dedicated to the ban on character evidence. I made this optional because it overlaps it large part with the assigned reading "Blackness as Character Evidence." But it could be useful to read for a concise summary of the problem.

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Criminal Defense Clinic

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