Back in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court blessed a restyled, easier-to-read Federal Rules of Evidence that got rid of inconsistent, ambiguous, redundant, repetitive or archaic words. And that same year, the Texas Supreme Court thought it was a good idea to do the same thing to the Texas Rules of Evidence—an easy enough task, since the Texas rules are based on the federal rules, or so it would seem.
But it took two-and-a-half years for Texas restyled evidence rules to be completed, said Steven Goode, a University of Texas School of Law evidence professor who helped rewrite the rules, along with Jeremy Counseller, a Baylor Law School civil procedure professor; Fields Alexander, a partner in Houston's Beck Redden; and a host of State Bar of Texas committees and subcommittees.
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