Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Leading questions may also be permitted on direct examination when a witness requires special handling, for example a child. However, the court must take care to be sure that the examining attorney is not coaching the witness through leading questions. Courts may also cite the various editions of McCormick's and Wigmore's treatises on evidence ...
Maryland v. Craig, 497 U.S. 836 (1990), was a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Sixth Amendment.The Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, which provides criminal defendants with the right to confront witnesses against them, did not bar the use of one-way closed-circuit television to present testimony by an alleged child sex abuse victim.
This petition came after Morecroft had sued Morris in provincial court for libel. [2] The articles of impeachment brought against Morecroft accused Morecroft of having: Brought "Westminster" law to Maryland's Assembly (charges which Peter Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull write was "an example of colonial dislike for trained English Law") [2]
This ensures that the jury has a broad spectrum of evidence before it, but not so much evidence that is repetitive, inflammatory, or confusing. The Rules define relevance broadly and relax the common-law prohibitions on witnesses' competence to testify. Hearsay standards are similarly relaxed, as are the standards for authenticating written ...
Some of these exceptions apply regardless of the declarant's availability to testify in court. See F.R.E. 803(1)-(23). [16] Others apply only when the declarant is unavailable to testify at the trial or hearing. See F.R.E. 804. [17] Many of the exceptions listed below are treated more extensively in individual articles.
These hearings would have marked the first time that Wray and Mayorkas appeared before Congress since Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5.
Leaders of major US banks will try to assure Washington on Wednesday that the sector has stabilized since the regional banking crisis.
A subpoena requires the person therein named to appear and attend before a court or magistrate at the time and place, to testify as a witness. [37] Under the Uniform Rules of Criminal Procedure, the subpoena must state the name of the court and the title, if any, of the proceeding. It must command each person to whom it is directed to attend ...