{"id":4164,"date":"2026-02-19T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:30:51","slug":"rules-of-evidence-comment-period-closes-april-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/2026\/02\/19\/rules-of-evidence-comment-period-closes-april-6-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules of Evidence &#8211; Comment Period Closed April 6, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/02\/Rule-804-redline-101624-101425-020926.pdf\">URE804.<\/a> Exceptions to the Rule Against Hearsay &#8211; When the Declarant is Unavailable as a Witness. The proposed amendments follow recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 804 clarifying that courts consider the totality of the circumstances to determine a statement\u2019s trustworthiness, not just corroborating circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URE804. Exceptions to the Rule Against Hearsay &#8211; When the Declarant is Unavailable as a Witness. The proposed amendments follow recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 804 clarifying that courts consider the totality of the circumstances to determine a statement\u2019s trustworthiness, not just corroborating circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ure0804"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 01:32:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.utcourts.gov\/utc\/rules-comment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}