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Missouri

Evidence

Guide

Missouri

Evidence Guide

Published by

The Missouri Bar

326 Monroe

Jefferson City, Missouri 65101

This volume may be cited as:

Mo. Evidence Guide § ________ (MoBar 2003)

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Published by

The Missouri Bar

326 Monroe

Jefferson City, Missouri 65101

http://www.mobar.org

Phone: 573/635-4128

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Copyright 1984, 1993, 1996, 2003

The Missouri Bar

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Preface

Missouri is one of only a handful of states that do not have evidence codes or stated rules of evidence. As a practical guide for Missouri lawyers and judges, The Missouri Bar has recast Missouri evidence law as it has developed in cases, statutes, and other authorities in the format and style of the Federal Rules of Evidence. This is not intended to change the law relating to evidence.

In 1984, The Missouri Bar Board of Governors appointed a Task Force on Evidence, which published Missouri Evidence Restated. The members of this task force as well as those who served for a second edition published in 1993 are listed on an accompanying page. Professor Emeritus Patrick D. Kelly, of the UMKC School of Law, served as the Reporter of the Task Forces. He and the law students who worked with him(listed on an accompanying page as advisory members of the Task Force(did the underlying research and the drafting of initial and subsequent drafts of the various sections. For the third edition, published in 1996, Professor Kelly updated the second edition and again did the research for and drafting of the changes and additions to the sections. The third edition and its 1999 supplement have been edited into this Evidence Guide. The Missouri Bar is grateful to...