Civil litigators often overlook character evidence, assuming it to be inadmissible. But the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts do not impose a categorical ban on character evidence ...

A federal appeals court came down hard Tuesday on use of evidence of prior bad acts in a context that implies a defendant acted consistently with a predisposition toward crime. The U.S. Court of ...

With just over four months before trial is scheduled to begin for the four officers charged with violating Tyre Nichols' civil rights, a federal judge is now set to rule on whether certain evidence ...

A Marine senior noncommissioned officer found guilty of using ecstasy was exonerated by a Navy appeals court, which ruled in essence that he is too good for the charge to be true in light of ...