When a federal trial judge is considering the admissibility of evidence of a past sexual assault in a civil lawsuit, the court need not make its own finding that the act probably qualifies as a sexual assault and was committed by the defendant, but only that a reasonable jury could do so and that the evidence is relevant, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
The ruling in Johnson v. Elk Lake School District marks the first time the 3rd Circuit has spoken on three new federal rules of evidence.
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