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A Self-Serving Affidavit Is Still Evidence

Updated August 18, 2026; originally published November 13, 2018 by Charles Stiegler
Self-serving affidavit

Lawyers sometimes object to evidence as “self-serving.” As the Eleventh Circuit has recently held, this objection is not based in law and – perhaps more importantly – makes no logical sense.

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