A New Jersey Supreme Court committee wants to expand to civil cases a rule that allows evidence of prior false accusations to impeach a victim-witness's credibility. Battered women's advocates object to the idea, saying the court should then also allow testimony on alleged batterers' prior bad acts. Some lawyers say the rule change might make it too difficult for judges to determine whether a dismissal of a prior dispute was caused by a false accusation or a recantation caused by other facts.
April 25, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A New Jersey Supreme Court committee wants to allow evidence of witnesses’ prior false accusations in civil and family proceedings, and some advocates for battered women don’t like the idea.
The proposal by the Committee on the Rules of Evidence would expand to civil cases a narrow exception to New Jersey Evidence Rule 608, crafted by the court in 2004, that allowed evidence of prior false accusations to impeach a victim-witness’s credibility in criminal proceedings.
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