Federal Rules of Evidence

• Article 1. General Provisions
• Article 2. Judicial Notice
• Article 3. Presumptions in Civil Cases
• Article 4. Relevance and Its Limits
• Article 5. Privileges
• Article 6. Witnesses
• Article 7. Opinions and Expert Testimony
• Article 8. Hearsay
• Article 9. Authentication and Identification
• Article 10. Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs
• Article 11. Miscellaneous Rules

Rules of evidence are, as the name indicates, the rules by which a court determines what evidence is admissible at trial. In the U.S., federal courts follow the Federal Rules of Evidence.

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