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For nearly the last four decades, Texas Rules of Evidence Manual has provided invaluable, comprehensive, and definitive guidance for Texas judges and lawyers. The book has been cited over 200 times by Texas courts (including the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals), legal commentators, and lawyers drafting legal briefs. Well-documented and thoroughly researched, the book contains thousands of citations to Texas cases and secondary sources that have interpreted and applied the Texas Rules of Evidence. The Texas Rules of Evidence Manual is a critical resource for those who are bound to use the Texas Rules of Evidence, whether the bench or the bar or those studying Texas evidence. This one-volume treatise is designed to explain in plain language what a particular Rule requires or prohibits, indicates what the courts have said about the Rules, and offers practice pointers on using the Rules. The book is designed to be as useful as possible to the harried judge, counsel, or student who must quickly find the law. It is organized so that users will have at a quick glance not only the official text of each Rule of Evidence, but also in-depth commentary of the Rule. For each Rule of Evidence the reader will find: __The official text of the Rule, __Editorial analysis explaining the Rule and the interrelationships between the Rules, __General guidelines for interpreting and applying the Rule, and __Any Drafter s Comments on that Rule, as well the notes and comments accompanying all amendments to each Rule, all of which provide a helpful legislative history for each Rule. The Texas Rules of Evidence Manual, Eleventh edition, continues in the treatise s long-standing tradition of serving as a useful and trusted one-volume addition to any judge or lawyer s legal library.