Kinser: Don’t tinker with Rules of Evidence 
Chief justice: Proposal for evidence code a unified package
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Published: October 12, 2011
Tags: Bar Associations, General Assembly, Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, Rules of Evidence, Supreme Court of Virginia News
ROANOKE--Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser urged the General Assembly to vote thumbs-up or down on the court’s newly endorsed Rules of Evidence without any tweaking of individual rules.
The court presented the rules to the Virginia Code Commission earlier this month, and in remarks to the Roanoke Bar Association Tuesday, Kinser said the ...
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