Until recently, former trial judge and Illinois Appellate Court Justice Gino DiVito had served on the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Illinois Evidence since its inception. In his June Illinois Bar Journal article, “In Defense of Rejected Proposals,” the former justice documents rejected proposals from 2013, the source of certain evidence rules, and why some rules have been reserved or are otherwise absent.

Institutional memory is a good thing, of course, especially given that only one of the current Illinois Supreme Court Justices was on the bench in 2013.

Read "In Defense of Rejected Proposals" in the June IBJ.