Rapt Admissions: Comparing Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 416 “Rap Shield” with the Rule 412 “Rape Shield”

Jul. 28, 2023—Patience Tyne | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 813 (2023). Creative expression depicting illicit activity can cause jurors to infer improper conclusions about a defendant, even when the jurors attempt to analyze such evidence objectively. When the government seeks to admit a defendant’s creative work into evidence in a criminal trial, courts use...

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