A recent and significant amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 807, known as the residual exception, took effect on Dec. 1, 2019. Rule 807 has historically allowed an argument for the admissibility ...
In S.D. Police Dep't v. Geoffrey S., decided Friday (but posted today) by the California Court of Appeal (Justice Martin Buchanan, joined by Presiding Justice Cynthia Aaron), the court upheld a ...
Lin v. Everyday Beauty is an Eastern District of New York decision addressing an issue that has divided district courts in the Second Circuit and elsewhere: Whether a federal court may consider ...
In his Complex Litigation column, Michael Hoenig discusses the hearsay rule and some of its exceptions, particularly focusing on the newly revised revised Rule 807, which is now seemingly more ...
The general inadmissibility of hearsay is something that has been around for some time, just like various exceptions that allow hearsay to be admitted in certain situations. The residual exception is ...
The trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, accused in the death of George Floyd, prompted a question about how lawyers bring out information they want a judge or jury to consider. Floyd is ...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A leading Republican critique of the House impeachment inquiry is that Democrats are relying on “hearsay” evidence. The word ‘hearsay’ is bandied about in legal circles all ...
Rep. Mike Quigley defended the impeachment testimony of two witnesses by asserting that hearsay evidence is sometimes admitted into court. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent and acting ...
[I] happen to like probation violation hearings. Not because of what they are, but I like how they operate. It always feels to me like there are discrete steps to violations of probation (VOPs, for ...