Carol Michel and Sebastian Cribari
Article
International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
“Celebrity Trials: Trial Techniques and Tactics – The Modernization of FRE 615."
This paper discusses the campaign to modernize Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 615 in five parts:
- a brief historical recap of witness sequestration
- the specific issues regarding witness sequestration highlighted by Celebrity Trials
- Circuit splits regarding and state counterparts to the Rule
- a timeline of the recent proposals to amend the Rule, and
- a look at the newly amended Rule 615