Playing by Kentucky Rules: Researching the Kentucky Rules of Evidence

Louisville Bar Briefs, at 7, 2010

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Kurt X. Metzmeier

University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Date Written: October 30, 2010

Abstract

It was not until into 1992 that final version of the codified Kentucky Rules of Evidence (KRE) was adopted as a law by the Kentucky legislature. This article discusses the history of state evidence law since the state courts enlisted University of Kentucky professor Robert G. Lawson to arrange all “significant decisions” on Kentucky evidence law into an orderly arrangement of black-letter rules with cases and commentary which was published as Kentucky Evidence Law Handbook (1976). Lawson later led a Kentucky Evidence Rules Study Committee to draft what ultimately became the KRE. Its two important documents, the Final Draft Report (1989) and the Study Committee Notes (1992) are discussed as tools for interpreting the KRE.

Suggested Citation

Metzmeier, Kurt X., Playing by Kentucky Rules: Researching the Kentucky Rules of Evidence (October 30, 2010). Louisville Bar Briefs, at 7, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2756548

Kurt X. Metzmeier (Contact Author)

University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law ( email )

Wilson W. Wyatt Hall
Louisville, KY 40292
United States

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