Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jailed. It used to be much more difficult to convict rapists, but states are changing their laws so that simply a victim's say-so may be evidence enough. The Washington State legislature, angry over the difficulty of prosecuting a child molester, passed a law last year allowing hearsay testimony in certain criminal trials to corroborate other evidence...
...higher education), or whether his wife is alive or dead. Nor do we know for certain whether he speaks or understands English. We do know that a son speaks English and that a daughter writes stories for a Soviet culture magazine. Andropov's affinity for the arts is hearsay because there are no confirmed reports of him at the theater or in museums...
...trial. Those considerations recently cost Philadelphia Prosecutor William Heiman his sexual abuse case against the father of a four-year-old girl. She was the sole witness, and Heiman could not bring in her mother to relate what the youngster had told her because that would be inadmissible hearsay. The girl was not forced to testify, he says, because a "psychiatrist made it very clear that the child could be badly damaged...
...pleading guilty to murder and testifying that Carthan hired him, he was offered the likelihood of only eight years in prison instead of a possible death sentence. He took the stand last Wednesday in the murder trial of Carthan, but much of his testimony was ruled inadmissible as hearsay, since Hester alone had made all the alleged arrangements with Carthan. The next day a new plea bargain was struck, this one with Hester: for testifying that he and Bolden had killed Granderson on Carthan's orders and for pleading guilty to felonious assault, he would not be prosecuted...
Judge James declared that individuals in the National Intelligence Service and Defense Force had clearly known about the operation but, nonetheless, ruled that allegations of an official South African connection to the operation were "purely hearsay." The day after the trial, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, who had refrained from commenting until the legal proceedings were completed, insisted that the government had not known of the affair. He charged that Hoare had approached members of the intelligence and military forces with his plan and admitted that arms and ammunition had been given to him. Botha said that "departmental action" would...