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Admissibility Of Fruits Of Breached Evidentiary Privileges: The Importance Of Adversarial Fairness, Party Culpability, And Fear Of Immunity, Robert P. Mosteller
Admissibility Of Fruits Of Breached Evidentiary Privileges: The Importance Of Adversarial Fairness, Party Culpability, And Fear Of Immunity, Robert P. Mosteller
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Forfeiture By Wrongdoing And Those Who Acquiesce In Witness Intimidation: A Reach Exceeding Its Grasp And Other Problems With Federal Rule Of Evidence 804(B)(6), James F. Flanagan
Forfeiture By Wrongdoing And Those Who Acquiesce In Witness Intimidation: A Reach Exceeding Its Grasp And Other Problems With Federal Rule Of Evidence 804(B)(6), James F. Flanagan
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This article is the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the new exception to the hearsay rule that permits prosecutors to admit hearsay statements of absent witnesses when the defendant causes their unavailability at trial. The article develops the problems with the rule's overbroad language, its potential to admit unreliable hearsay and its relationship to the Confrontation Clause. These issues are of increasing interest to lawyers, judges and justices now that it is a federal rule and been adopted by ten states.
The first section is a comprehensive statement of the rule as now applied. The exception is traced from …
Victim Impact Evidence: Hard To Find The Real Rules, Robert P. Mosteller
Victim Impact Evidence: Hard To Find The Real Rules, Robert P. Mosteller
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