Number: RL30042 Title: COMPENDIUM OF PRECEDENTS INVOLVING EVIDENTIARY RULINGS AND APPLICATIONS OF EVIDENTIARY PRINCIPLES FROM SELECTED IMPEACHMENT TRIALS Authors: Elizabeth B. Bazan, Nancy Lee Jones, Charles Doyle, and Jay R. Shampansky, American Law Division Abstract: This report is a compilation of evidentiary issues and rulings from the Senate impeachment trials of Judges Nixon, Hastings, Claiborne, Ritter, Louderback, and Swayne. A discourse on what evidentiary rules and principles are applicable in impeachment trials is appended. Pages: 66 Date: Updated January 29, 1999