All relevant evidence is admissible, except as otherwise provided by the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, by Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, by these rules, or by other rules adopted by the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Evidence which is not relevant is not admissible.
Effective: July 1, 1992

Terms Used In Kentucky Rules of Evidence 402

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Relevant evidence: means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. See Kentucky Rules of Evidence 401

History: Enacted 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 12; renumbered (7/1/92) pursuant to 1992
Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34.

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