Books As Weapons: Reading Materials and Unfairly Prejudicial Character Evidence

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This Note argues that reading histories should be barred as a matter of law from the criminal trial context because admission of such evidence unfairly prejudices a defendant in the eyes of a rational fact-finder.

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Reading interests, Reading histories, Surveillance of intellectual activity, Character evidence (Law), Right of privacy, Admissible evidence, Cognitive evidence, Federal Rules of Evidence

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Paul Varnado (Washington University School of Law)

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