Practice question
A civil compromise-negotiation statement is offered solely to prove liability. The court rejects that use. Later a material and properly supported witness-bias purpose is identified under section 28. Must the first rejection automatically settle the second use?
- Yes, every use of negotiation material is categorically identical.
- Yes, bias is never material.
- No; all negotiation statements must now prove liability.
- No; the Rule recognizes specified other purposes such as witness bias, whose requirements must be independently assessed.
- Yes, any settlement discussion makes a trial impossible.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html — Rule 128 section 3; Rule 130 sections 27–29, 34–35 and 37; Rule 132 section 34: purpose-specific admissibility.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1955/nov1955/gr_l-9181_1955.html — People v. Yatco, G.R. L-9181, November 28, 1955, main opinion: multiple admissibility, subject to current safeguards.
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