Rule 404 (Character Evidence)

Evidence, F. R. o. Rule 404 (Character Evidence).

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https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_404

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Primes

• Relevance Substitution
  • in political communication (likeability, partisan-tribal, fear-salience, and patriotism substitution), in legal reasoning (character-evidence rules existing precisely to prevent juror relevance substitution),

    This sourceUnited States. Exclude character and unfairly prejudicial evidence precisely to prevent jurors substituting an irrelevant active channel for the relevant one.

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    Rule 404 and its committee notes support only the legal-reasoning half: character evidence is excluded because it distracts the factfinder from what actually happened.

    “It tends to distract the trier of fact from the main question of what actually happened on the particular occasion.”

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