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      "id": 326047,
      "date": "1999-01-29",
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      "title": "Compendium of Precedents Involving Evidentiary Rulings and Applications of Evidentiary Principles from Selected Impeachment Trials",
      "summary": "At the present time, there are no binding rules of evidence or set of evidentiary principles to be\napplied in Senate impeachment trials. Rather, recourse is taken to the evidentiary rules and\nprinciples applicable in contemporaneous court proceedings and to precedents from past\nimpeachment trials to provide guidance for Senate Impeachment Trial Committees or for the full\nSenate on evidentiary questions which arise in the impeachment context. This report compiles\nselected evidentiary precedents from the Senate impeachment trials of Judges Walter L. Nixon, Jr.,\nAlcee L. Hastings, Harry E. Claiborne, Halsted Ritter, Harold Louderback, and Charles Swayne. The\nevidentiary rulings and principles gleaned from this examination are arranged in subject matter\ncategories, and within those categories, in reverse chronological order by trial.",
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