Sentence examples for dying declaration from inspiring English sources
noun
A statement that would normally be deemed inadmissible as evidence in a court of law as hearsay, but is deemed admissible because it was made by a person who believed himself to be dying, is about the circumstances of that person's death, and was followed by that person's actual death.
Despite Ms. Booysen's dying declaration, they did not have enough evidence to prosecute Mr. Davids, and he was set free.
Peterson has a way of making even the mildest pronouncement sound like the dying declaration of a political prisoner.
But the prosecution in Mr. Bryant's case did not pursue that theory, and Justice Sotomayor did not address it on Monday except to say that it was possible that a dying declaration "might be admissible as a historical exception to the Confrontation Clause".
"She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on 23 December," local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told the agency.
At the end of season three, rotten rozzer DI Matthew Cottan's dying declaration pointed the finger at a puppet master whose surname began with the letter H. Rather unhelpfully, he expired before filling in any more blanks, leaving anti-corruption unit AC-12 dangling.
Rate of recording of dying declaration in deaths due to burns is less than expected.
Nor does the provision that an accused person shall be confronted with the witnesses against him prevent the admission of dying declarations, or the depositions of witnesses who have died since the former trial.
That requirement of procedural due process should be sedulously enforced (save for the recognized exceptions of dying declarations and the like, id., 407, 85 S.Ct., at 10691070) lest the theory that the end justifies the means gains further footholds here.
See Mattox v. United States, 156 U.S. 237, 243 (1895) ("[T]here could be nothing more directly contrary to the letter of the provision in question than the admission of dying declarations").
We will look at a wide variety of last words, including last words codified as genres¿quotations, suicide notes, epitaphs, dying declarations, Japanese death poems, confessions, and the like as literary devices (last sentences, envois, punch lines, epilogues), and as forms of social or cultural practice (the making of heroes, idols, and martyrs in religious, political, and popular culture).
Another possible exception is for dying declarations, i.e. statements made by a speaker on the brink of death while aware that he or she is dying.
