Ricky Munday: Federal Rules of Evidence: Presumption vs. Proof
Ricky Munday: Federal Rules of Evidence — Presumption vs. Proof Official Channel of Ricky L. Pinzon — featuring the investigative persona Ricky Munday ( @RickyMunday ) FRE 301, Rebuttable Presumptions, and Institutional Regularity “So I discovered in civil litigation related to the Federal Rules of Evidence, particularly 301 and 302, they have something called this presumption of correctness, right? But the reality of that regularity that becomes self-validation in the process... establishes a simple but important principle: Presumption is not proof. Presumption merely requires the opposing party to produce evidence that rebuts it. And once contrary evidence is presented, the burden of persuasion remains where it originally belongs... and the institution invoking the presumption does not automatically prevail and enjoy qualified immunity simply because it began from a...