UTMT Workshop (MRE General)

This rule number excludes testimony that is not relevant

True/False: Bias is sometimes relevant

• True

• False

The bar for relevance is:

This rule number covers testimony which is more prejudicial than probative:

Rule 403 covers which of the following:

• More needlessly cumulative than probative

• More vague and ambiguous than probative

• More misleading than probative

• More prejudicial than probative

In order for something to be more prejudicial than probative...

• It must make some fact in the case more or less likely

• The prejudicial value must substaintially outweigh any probative value

• It must hold a reasonable amount of probative value

• It must meet the prongs of rule 403

This rule number covers improper laywitness opinions (speculation):

True/False: Under rule 701, a laywitness opinion must be based on specialized knowledge

• True

• False

In order for testimony to NOT be speculation, under rule 701, it must come from the witness's

This rule number covers improper character evidence