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Judicial Notice: Four Must-Know Rules

Evidence at Trial

In pretrial litigation , judicial notice requests are used in pleadings to establish some needed fact without an attesting witness. In closing argument, you can run through the facts of the case and—referring to the fact judicially noticed—remind the jury that this fact is beyond dispute, because the judge said so.