Finals Part 1

which court defined hearsay as any statement to which neither the Crown or the defendant is privy 

Some of these categories include: Statements made to a medical provider for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment, statements about the reputation of the person, their family, or land boundaries, present-sense impressions excited utterances, and statements on mental, emotional, or physical conditions, etc...  

Out-of-court statements made by a party to the case not considered hearsay made by the defendant if it falls under one of the following categories: 

With regards to dealing with admission by silence, the courts have established some guidelines for evaluation of such. The jury can only consider the defendant’s silence if the defendant:  

statement, of which the party has manifested a belief in its truth, confronted by statement elements, your action is admission of guilt by: 

statement by a co-conspirator is considered as: 

Co-conspirator statements are admissible because 

the some statements are admissible as exceptions to the Hearsay Rule because the witness is unavailable. 

exception to the Hearsay Rule, that some statements are inherently trustworthy 

Framers adopted much of the legal rationale for privileged communications from: