Word: hearsay
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...different situation altogether. And none of these supposed killings there are based on eyewitness reports. They are rumors, second and third-hand accounts. You remember the French doctor who said he saw 300 bodies. The next day he retracted his statement and admitted it was only hearsay. All the reporters are confined to special quarters, and they are perhaps angry at their containment so they jump on rumors...
...plotted so strenuously to get "the big enchilada" to take the full rap for Watergate, Mitchell has come off as a less sinister figure than during the Senate Watergate hearings. The prosecution's testimony that he approved the bugging plan rests on the testimony of Magruder and the hearsay claim by LaRue that one of the burglars, G. Gordon Liddy, had named Mitchell as having authorized the project. Mitchell also has the advantage of being defended by the most engaging lawyer in the courtroom, William Hundley. When another attorney asked Judge Sirica to expel anyone from the courtroom...
...both in its conception and its procedures. It has all of the powers usually vested in judicial bodies--it charges students and tries and resolves their cases--but none of the strictures usually imposed on them. It can hold closed hearings, deny students the right to counsel and admit hearsay evidence. Although all the cases it hears involve students, its composition (four students and seven Faculty members) is stacked to let Faculty views dominate...
ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE. Mansfield would allow into the impeachment trial any evidence that would be admissible in federal or state courts, no matter what the nature of the case. This would permit information produced in congressional hearings as well as substantial hearsay evidence to be introduced. This was also opposed by Republicans as far too permissive and aimed at bolstering what they consider a technically weak case against the President...
...reporter signaling with a flower pot containing a red flag, meetings in an underground garage at 2 a.m. and the code name "Deep Throat" are typical examples of the techniques that led to false accusations based on triple hearsay, trial by the press instead of by jury, and criticism of the press even by those who feel that the President is guilty of numerous criminal offenses. It is inexcusable for reporters, even in desperation, to attempt to obtain secret information from grand jurors...