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hearsay

Statements overheard and repeated, rather than personally witnessed.
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Since not all cases will involve the introduction of hearsay evidence, there will tend to be differing contextual standards of justification for knowledge attributions in criminal cases that do involve the admission of hearsay from those that do not.
Less evidence, better knowledge
a) Hearsay evidence is presumptively inadmissible unless it falls under an exception to the hearsay rule.
Realizing the potential of the principled approach to evidence
2012) (citations omitted) ("Ordinarily, we review the admission of hearsay evidence for an abuse of discretion.
Say what? Confusion in the courts over what is the proper standard of review for hearsay rulings
Big investigatory technique should be subject to routine exclusion under the principled approach to hearsay evidence.
Opposing Mr. Big in principle
104) Although hearsay evidence is admissible in a criminal court "probable cause" hearing in a misdemeanor case, it is not admissible at a felony probable cause hearing.
The admissibility of expert opinion and the bases of expert opinion in sex offender civil management trials in New York
Hearsay Exceptions--One of the most common misunderstandings related to hearsay evidence is the belief that the public records exception set forth in F.
Practice pointers for administrative hearings
The Anglo-Australian legal system has excluded hearsay evidence for several centuries.
Trial by prejudice: Julian Burnside reports on the charges being laid against David Hicks and his ever-fading prospects for a fair trial
99) So even if, for the sake of argument, we assume that judges are indeed better than juries at not overestimating the value of hearsay evidence, at recognizing the risks of non-original documents, at taking alleged expertise with a grain of salt, at giving character and prior acts showing a propensity to commit some current act their proper weight, and so on, it appears that we also have reason to believe that the gap between jurors and judges in this regard, even if it does exist, will be systematically over-assessed by the judges themselves.
On the supposed jury-dependence of evidence law
He explains such terms as direct evidence, real evidence, and circumstantial evidence and clarifies the often confusing rule against hearsay evidence and notes the various "exceptions" to that rule that are typically pertinent to the testifying social worker.
The Role of Law in Social Work Practice and Administration
The court refused to admit into evidence letters written by a pair of mental health professionals that discussed the woman's diagnosis and lack of treatment adherence because the letters constituted inadmissible hearsay evidence.
Parental rights of woman with schizophrenia terminated for failing to take needed medication
3) This "unreliability" is considered to be a product of several factors: (1) hearsay evidence is often not the best evidence of a fact because more direct statements or other evidence have far more probative value; (2) a hearsay statement is almost never made under oath; (3) other parties do not have a chance to cross-examine the maker of a hearsay statement; and (4) with a hearsay statement, the judge and jury do not get an opportunity to observe the demeanor of the declarant for credibility purposes.
"Electronic fingerprints": doing away with the conception of computer-generated records as hearsay
Supreme Court made a broad ruling regarding hearsay evidence that asserted the rights of an accused to "be confronted with the witnesses against him.
A new order in the court

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