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Ed Stapleton received his bachelors from the University of Texas in Plan II and his JD from the University of Texas School of Law in 1975. He has practiced law in Texas since he was licensed in January of 1976 and has accepted appointments to defend indigents since that time. He works with his daughter, Sara, in their firm of Stapleton & Stapleton in Brownsville. Ed served for a time as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Brownsville and Fort Worth. A faculty member with the Trial Lawyers College and TCDLA psychodrama, Ed served as an Adjunct teacher in Trial Advocacy at the Texas Wesleyan School of Law. He is a co-author of the Spine at Trial published by the American Bar Association.

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The Rules of Evidence: The Rest of Our Top 25

Ed Stapleton

Sara Stapleton

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

In our first article, we offered a summary of our top 12 rules of evidence for defending criminal cases. These rules are: 1) Rule 602, 2) Rule 402, 3) Rule 802, 4) Rule 403, 5) Rule 614, 6) Rule 615, 7) CCP Chapter 38, 8) Crawford, 9) Rule 404(b), 10) Rule 701, 11) Rule 702, and 12) Rule 104. These next 13 rules will also be important in most every criminal defense.

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Texas and Federal Rules of Evidence: Our Top 12

Ed Stapleton

Sara Stapleton

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

Certain rules of evidence are needed in most every trial. These may be committed to memory, not necessarily so the rule can be recited verbatim, but at least so we may get to our feet and give a rule number and general description of the rule in making an objection. Being able to recite the rule word for word has advantages also.