By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//October 13, 2017//
By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//October 13, 2017//
The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an order Wednesday formally adopting several changes to the state’s rules of evidence.
The justices decided to:
The changes, which will take effect Jan. 1, were first proposed in 2016 by the Judicial Council, a 21-member body of practitioners and lawmakers, in response to a years-long study conducted by its evidence and civil-procedure committee. The court voted in January, though, to return the proposal to the council for more revisions. The council amended the petition with helped from Marquette Law Professor Dan Blinka and a new version in March, and the court voted in May to hold a hearing on it.
The court held a public hearing on the changes in September and voted shortly afterward in closed conference to adopt them.