hearsay rule


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a rule that declares not admissible as evidence any statement other than that by a witness

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Cynthia Ross was appointed to chair a special subcommittee to reconsider and review a private citizen's proposal to amend or abolish the excited utterance and present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule [F.S.
Knight said the result was a good one because the hearsay rule is "easy to get around in some circumstances."
The judge said: "In circumstances where crucial documentary evidence was admitted in breach of the hearsay rule, the court must uphold this ground of appeal."
Proof evincing the mailing must be presented in admissible form, including where it is applicable, meeting the business records exception to the hearsay rule.
The hearsay rule applies only to out-of-court statements, and it defines a statement as 'a person's oral assertion, written assertion, or nonverbal conduct.'"
Terranova also argued the records are inadmissible as hearsay because the raw data was entered by surveyors who did not testify to its accuracy, and the Court rejects this argument on the business records exception to the hearsay rule (at para 49).
A dying declaration is a type of evidence admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule in a criminal homicide or civil case.
But at the same time, seen from the standpoint of epistemic contextualism, the technique of enforcing the hearsay rule (exclusion) is not as isolated from the content of the rule as Ho envisions it.
The hearsay rule has a long history, possibly even dating back
(25) The first axis, whether the statement was formally made, hinges largely on the reason the hearsay rule exists.