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The Williams Rule is based on the holding in the Florida state case of Williams v. State [ 1 ] in which relevant evidence of collateral crimes is admissible at jury trial when it does not go to prove the "bad character" or "criminal propensity" of the defendant but is used to show motive, intent, knowledge, modus operandi , or lack of mistake.
Comcast Cablevision of Broward County, Inc. v. Broward County, Florida, 124 F.Supp.2d 685 (S.D. Fla., 2000), [1] was a ruling at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida over the constitutionality of a local ordinance requiring an Internet service provider to share its physical network with competitors.
Scherer graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in English and received a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. [6] She is the daughter of William R. Scherer, a private attorney who was part of the legal team representing George W. Bush during the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida. [3]
The Florida circuit courts are state courts and trial courts [1] of original jurisdiction for most controversies. In Florida, the circuit courts are one of four types of courts created by the Florida Constitution (the other three being the Florida Supreme Court, Florida district courts of appeal, and Florida county courts).
Have the judge take judicial notice of the text, if it is sufficiently notable that the average person would know that it is an authority (for example, Gray's Anatomy [1] [2]). Under the Federal Rules of Evidence 803 (18), either party can introduce a learned treatise as evidence, irrespective of whether it is being used to rebut the opposing ...
Usan was a Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Air Force from 1987 to 1992. [1] Prior to entering private practice in 1993, he also served as a prosecutor for a brief period of time in Broward County. Up until his court appointment in 2010, he practiced criminal defense law in Fort Lauderdale. [2]
Broward parents can expect to be calling the office at their children’s schools a lot more this year. School board members voted unanimously to adopt their own district-wide rules to expand the ...
Strict rules of evidence is a term sometimes used in and about Anglophone common law.The term is not always seen as belonging to technical legal terminology; legislation seldom if ever names a set of laws with the term "strict rules of evidence"; and the term's precise application varies from one legal context to another.