Directions: Read the following hypothetical situation. Upon completion, please identify all points at which hearsay is present, also listing any...
Directions:
Read the following hypothetical situation. Upon completion, please
identify all points at which hearsay is present, also listing any
possible exceptions that may apply.
Facts: John
has been arrested for attempted murder. His accuser, Lisa, claims that
John tried to poison her by putting arsenic in her coffee. The following
witnesses are being asked to testify at trial:
Karl works
at a hardware store and recalls John's buying a box of arsenic. As Karl
wrote out the receipt, John said, we've got a real pest I've got to get
rid of."
Tina is
John's sister. She claims that John's friend, Mike, admitted that he
poisoned the coffee. However, Mike apparently drank out of the wrong cup
and wound up poisoning himself. Mike slowly sank into a coma and died
before he could testify.
Fred is being asked to testify that he saw John putting a substance into a cup that Lisa was drinking from.
Stella is John's former girlfriend. She claims that John told her, "I'm gonna get even with Lisa one of these days."
Hal was an inmate in the same jail cell as John. Hal claims that John told him, "I didn't do anything wrong."
Ralph wants
to testify that he heard Lisa state, "I'm going to make sure John
spends the rest of his life in jail by poisoning myself."
Ruby is
going to recount at a worker's compensation hearing the substance of a
conversation that she had with Lisa in which Lisa admitted that she was
not really too emotionally upset to work, as she had previously claimed.
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