Tex. R. Evid. 608

A Witness’s Character for Truthfulness or Untruthfulness

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Rule 608. A Witness’s Character for Truthfulness or Untruthfulness
(a) Reputation or Opinion Evidence. A witness’s credibility may be attacked or supported
by testimony about the witness’s reputation for having a character for truthfulness or
untruthfulness, or by testimony in the form of an opinion about that character. But evidence
of truthful character is admissible only after the witness’s character for truthfulness has
been attacked.
(b) Specific Instances of Conduct. Except for a criminal conviction under Rule 609, a party
may not inquire into or offer extrinsic evidence to prove specific instances of the witness’s
conduct in order to attack or support the witness’s character for truthfulness.

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