{"id":8834,"date":"2021-10-04T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T11:02:04","slug":"new-rule-on-evidence-of-immigration-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8834","title":{"rendered":"New Rule on Evidence of Immigration Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme Court has adopted a new Rule of Evidence 413 that would allow evidence of immigration status to be used only if relevant to an element of an action or defense, or to a party\u2019s or witness\u2019s motive. \u201cOrder Approving the Adoption of Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 413; No. 878 Supreme Court Rules Doc.\u201d (8\/1\/2021), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol51\/51-34\/1308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">51 Pa.B. 5192<\/a> (8\/21\/2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8201\">had proposed this new rule in September of 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Note:  The order adopting the new rule was republished at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pacodeandbulletin.gov\/Display\/pabull?file=\/secure\/pabulletin\/data\/vol51\/51-39\/1612.html\" target=\"_blank\">51 Pa.B. 6140<\/a> (9\/25\/2021) because the original publication assigned the rule to the wrong title of the Pa. Code.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has adopted a new Rule of Evidence 413 that would allow evidence of immigration status to be used only if relevant to an element of an action or defense, or to a party\u2019s or witness\u2019s motive. \u201cOrder &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[711],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations","tag-rules-of-evidence","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8835,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}