Hearsay Evidence

Can a witness report hearsay evidence unintentionally

When eyewitnesses are exposed to misinformation about an event from a co-witness, they often incorporate this misinformation in their recall of the event. The current research aimed to investigate whether this memory conformity phenomenon is due to change in the witness‟s memory for the event, or to social pressures to conform to the co-witness‟s account. Participants were shown a crime video a...

Infinite Strands, Infinitesimally Thin: Storytelling, Bayesianism, Hearsay and Other Evidence

The Hearsay Rule and Delayed Complaints of Child Sexual Abuse: The Law and the Evidence

This article discusses the implications of two recent High Court cases on the admissibility of hearsay evidence of a child’s delayed disclosure of child sexual abuse. It compares and contrasts the traditional legal significance of delayed disclosure (as being evidence of fabrication) with prevalence studies from the psychological literature which show that a majority of children delay disclosur...

Testing Tribe’s Triangle: Juries, Hearsay, and Psychological Distance

Since its inception, evidence policymakers have vacillated with respect to whether the rule barring hearsay evidence at trial is a doctrine designed to promote decisional accuracy or a doctrine designed to promote procedural justice. To the extent that policymakers view the rule barring hearsay evidence as promoting decisional accuracy, the rationale for this view stems from the “testimonial tr...

Focus of Attention in the Hearsay-II Speech Understanding System

Using the concepts of stimulus and response frames of scheduled Knowledge source instantiations, competi t ion among a l ternat ive responses, goals, and the desirabi l i ty of a knowledge source instantiat ion, a general attentional contro l mechanism is developed. This general focusing mechanism faci l i tates the experimental evaluation of a var iety of specific at tent ional control policie...