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The Truth Does Not Always Come Out on Its Own — Court Rules Matter

Name: The Truth Does Not Always Come Out on Its Own — Court Rules Matter
Uploaded: 2026-07-27T12:00:00-05:00
Duration: 32 s
Description: Video: A Galveston criminal defense attorney explains why a trial is not a search for truth in the abstract — it is governed by rules of evidence and procedure, and the lawyer who knows those rules controls what the jury hears.

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Innocent people assume the truth will surface. In a courtroom, the truth only surfaces if it is admissible, properly offered, and not excluded by an objection. Brian Foley explains why the Texas Rules of Evidence and the Code of Criminal Procedure — hearsay, confrontation, suppression, predicate — decide what a jury is allowed to know.

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