Every legal dispute confronts the rules of evidence. Can a person’s past, specifically uncharged bad acts, be used as evidence in elder abuse lawsuits? A recent court ruling addressed this very ...

Victim advocates and survivors, including some who testified at Weinstein’s trial, believe the allowance of evidence of prior bad acts in the case helped rightly establish a pattern of behavior.

YOUNGSTOWN — A judge has ruled that prosecutors will be able to present evidence of “other crimes ... s argument for keeping Moore’s prior acts secret was that Moore’s killing of ...

The Federal Rule of Evidence that allowed admission of testimony showing that a sexual assault defendant committed a similar act previously doesn’t violate the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, ...