November 23, 2019
Hearsay and the Trump impeachment hearings
By Lynne Lechter
It was midnight in the gritty city. The gangster lay dying in a filthy back alley, his blood filling the rutted macadam surrounding him. With his last spurt of energy, he wrote in his pooling blood, "Gino did it." Across town, 99-year-old matriarch Mabel was dying comfortably in the hospital's dimly lit VIP suite, surrounded by close relatives. Suddenly, Mabel lifted her withered head and gasped, "Please make sure Alice and Sam get my beach house." She then expired.
Both of these statements, in legal terminology, are called dying declarations. In a gentler, more religiously compliant America, jurisprudence reflected the belief that a person about "to meet his maker" would state the truth. And these dying declarations became part of the strongest legal exception to the prohibition of hearsay evidence at trial, know commonly as the hearsay rule. This exception prevails today.
The Democrats' sham impeachment proceedings have now brought evidentiary topics, such as hearsay, to the fore of water-cooler conversations.
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