Criminal Evidence: Affordable Learning Grant

Discusses types of witnesses who can testify before the Court.

Steps in the Federal Criminal Process

A Useful Rule (When It's Followed) - What is inadmissible character evidence (Rule 404(a)) to one judge might be admissible "other acts" evidence (Rule 404(b)) to another.

On October 12, 2004, a jury in the Pulaski County Circuit Court convicted Robert Lamont Byndom of two counts of rape. He was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 240 months in the Arkansas Department of Correction. He now appeals, raising three points for reversal: (1) that there is no substantial evidence to support the jury's verdict; (2) that the trial court should have granted his request for mistrial; and (3) that the State withheld "admittedly potentially" exculpatory evidence. We affirm the convictions.

In a suit against a municipal corporation to recover damages for injuries received from a fall caused by a defective sidewalk which was in an unguarded condition, it is competent for the plaintiff to show that whilst it was in that condition, other like accidents had occurred at the same place.