Diamond Offshore Services Limited and Diamond Offshore Services Company v. Willie David Williams

DISSENTING OPINION

Evelyn V. Keyes,

Justice, dissenting.

I respectfully dissent, and I urge the Texas Supreme Court to take this case to *81establish the criteria for exclusion of a surveillance video in the Texas courts under Texas Rules of Evidence 403, which governs the admissibility of evidence whose probative value is allegedly substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice or needless cumulativeness.

In this case, the trial court refused to admit into evidence a surveillance video showing the plaintiff, Willie David Williams, performing multiple physical tasks while at the same…