Playing by Kentucky Rules: Researching the Kentucky Rules of Evidence
Louisville Bar Briefs, at 7, 2010
1 Pages Posted: 31 Mar 2016 Last revised: 8 Apr 2016
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.
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