{"id":364575,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/rehabilitate.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"rehabilitate","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/rehabilitate.html","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vt<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>-tat&#183;ed<\/b><br \/>  <b>-tat&#183;ing<\/b><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to restore to a former capacity <br \/>  <i>;specif<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to restore credibility to (a witness or testimony) &#91;the State simply brought out all of the prior statements to qualify or explain the inconsistency and to the witness &#8220;<i>People v. Page<\/i>, 550 N.E.2d 248 (1990)&#8221;&#93; compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/impeach.html\">impeach<\/a> <i>NOTE: A witness whose trial testimony is inconsistent with his or her pretrial usually sworn statements is considered impeached. Such a witness may be rehabilitated usually on redirect examination. There are various state and federal evidentiary rules governing what evidence (as character evidence) is admissible to rehabilitate a witness. <\/i> <br \/>  <b>2 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to restore to a former state (as of good repair or solvency) &#91;if the debtor wishes to liquidate rather than reorganize or the farming operation &#8220;J. H. Williamson&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to restore (as a convicted criminal defendant) to a useful and constructive place in society through therapy, job training, and other counseling <br \/>  <b><i>  re&#183;ha&#183;bil&#183;i&#183;ta&#183;tion   &#91;-bi-l&#601;-t&#257;-sh&#601;n&#93;<br \/>  <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Rehabilitate&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-364575","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/364575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=364575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}