Sentence examples for hearsay rule from inspiring English sources

The hearsay rule illustrates the point nicely.

Prosecutors had argued that the witness's testimony would be inadmissible under the hearsay rule.

1185 (1979); Graham, The Confrontation Clause, the Hearsay Rule, and the Forgetful Witness, 56 Texas L.Rev.

Prosecutors are asking Judge Rakoff to admit the recordings under the so-called co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule.

See Graham, The Right of Confrontation and the Hearsay Rule: Sir Walter Raleigh Loses Another One, 8 Crim.L.Bull.

Dismissing the appeals, Lord Phillips, the president, said that exceptions to the hearsay rule had been approved by parliament.

An S.E.C. administrative judge is also not subject to hearsay rules.

99, 129 (1972); Baker, The Right to Confrontation, the Hearsay Rules, and Due Process, 6 Conn.L.Rev.

The complexity of reconciling the Confrontation Clause and the hearsay rules has triggered an outpouring of scholarly commentary.

The old hearsay rules modified by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 were unfair to victims of crime and weighted too heavily in favour of criminals.

Although this was a sentencing proceeding and not a trial, the lax hearsay rules would still be permissible in a contested military commission trial.