Iowa Rules of Evidence
Current through 2026
Chapter I · General Provisions
Chapter II · Judicial Notice
Chapter III · Presumptions in Civil Cases
Chapter IV · Relevance and Its Limits
- 5.401 Test for relevant evidence
- 5.402 General admissibility of relevant evidence
- 5.403 Excluding relevant evidence for prejudice, confusion, waste of time, or other reasons
- 5.404 Character evidence; crimes or other acts
- 5.405 Methods of proving character
- 5.406 Habit; routine practice
- 5.407 Subsequent remedial measures
- 5.408 Compromise offers and negotiations
- 5.409 Payment of expenses
- 5.410 Pleas, plea discussions, and related statements
- 5.411 Liability insurance
- 5.412 Sex-offense cases: the victim’s sexual behavior or predisposition Deadlines
Chapter IX · Authentication and Identification
Chapter V · Privileges
Chapter VI · Witnesses
- 5.601 Competency to testify in general
- 5.602 Need for personal knowledge
- 5.603 Oath or affirmation to testify truthfully
- 5.604 Interpreter
- 5.605 Judge’s competency as a witness
- 5.606 Juror’s competency as a witness
- 5.607 Who may impeach a witness
- 5.608 Witness’s character for truthfulness or untruthfulness
- 5.609 Impeachment by evidence of a criminal conviction Deadlines
- 5.610 Religious beliefs or opinions
- 5.611 Mode and order of examining witnesses and presenting evidence
- 5.612 Writing used to refresh a witness’s memory
- 5.613 Witness’s prior statement
- 5.614 Court’s calling or examining a witness
- 5.615 Excluding witnesses
Chapter VII · Opinions and Expert Testimony
Chapter VIII · Hearsay
- 5.801 Definitions that apply to this Article; exclusions from hearsay
- 5.802 The rule against hearsay
- 5.803 Exceptions to the rule against hearsay—regardless of whether the declarant is available as a witness Deadlines
- 5.804 Exceptions to the rule against hearsay—when the declarant is unavailable as a witness
- 5.805 Hearsay within hearsay
- 5.806 Attacking and supporting the declarant’s credibility
- 5.807 Residual exception
Chapter X · Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs
- 5.1001 Definitions that apply to this article
- 5.1002 Requirement of the original
- 5.1003 Admissibility of duplicates
- 5.1004 Admissibility of other evidence of content
- 5.1005 Copies of public records to prove content
- 5.1006 Summaries to prove content
- 5.1007 Testimony or statement of a party to prove content
- 5.1008 Functions of the court and jury