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Hearsay and Exceptions
2016,2020
Overview
In the children’s game of “telephone,” one child thinks up something to say, maybe something true about herself, for example, “I like to sing and dance.” She whispers it to the next child, who whispers it to the next child, and so on down the line. Finally, the last child announces the sentence: “I hike and bike in France.” The results of the game can be funny and surprising. But they belong at a party, not in the courtroom.¹
The problem of hearsay evidence is the problem illustrated in the telephone example. The first child, who is the analog of
