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Hearsay

By Baker Associates

If you have ever watched one of the many legal dramas that pervade cable television, you have undoubtedly heard a lawyer vehemently declare the phrase ?Your honor, I object. That?s hearsay!? The concept seems simple enough: if you hear the witness say something along the lines of ?he said? or ?he told me? then you stand up, object to hearsay, have your objection sustained and then sit down triumphantly. Unfortunately, it rarely, if ever, works this way in the courtrooms of the real world. Hearsay, which seems simple enough at first glance, is actually a complicated concept. The entire purpose of classifying certain evidence as hearsay and thus excluding it from the courtroom is that some information is not reliable enough to be used in court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).