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Article 8. Hearsay


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

(Click on "Article 8 Rules" for a pdf document of all Article 8 rules;

Click on the name of the rule for an individual pdf document;

Click on "docx" for an individual Word document)

 

The rules are generally in alphabetical order

 

 

ARTICLE 8 RULES

(Last update: May 2023)

For a list of new & updated rules see Guide History

 

See Guide to NY Evidence article 3 (Prima Facie Evidence) for further exceptions to the rule

against the admission of hearsay for the records deemed prima facie evidence of their contents.

 

8.00. DEFINITION OF HEARSAY docx
     
8.01. ADMISSIBILITY OF HEARSAY docx
8.02. ADMISSIBILITY LIMITED BY CONFRONTATION CLAUSE (CRAWFORD) docx
8.03. ADMISSION BY A PARTY docx
8.05. ADMISSION BY ADOPTED STATEMENT OR SILENCE docx
8.07. ANCIENT DOCUMENTS docx
     
8.08. BUSINESS RECORD docx
     
8.09. COCONSPIRATOR STATEMENT docx
     
8.11. DECLARATION AGAINST PENAL OR PECUNIARY INTEREST docx
8.13. DECLARATION OF FUTURE INTENT docx
8.15. DYING DECLARATION docx
     
8.17. EXCITED UTTERANCE docx
     
8.19. FORFEITURE BY WRONGDOING docx
     
8.21. HEARSAY IN HEARSAY docx
     
8.23. JUDICIAL ADMISSIONS: INFORMAL & FORMAL docx
     
8.24. MARKET REPORTS docx
     
8.25. PAST RECOLLECTION RECORDED docx
8.27. PEDIGREE docx
8.29. PRESENT SENSE IMPRESSION docx
8.31. PRIOR CONSISTENT STATEMENT docx
8.33. PRIOR INCONSISTENT STATEMENT docx
8.35. PRIOR JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION docx
8.36. PRIOR TESTIMONY IN A CIVIL PROCEEDING docx
8.37. PRIOR TESTIMONY IN A CRIMINAL PROCEEDING docx
8.38. PROMPT OUTCRY docx
     
8.39.

REPUTATION EVIDENCE (see also rule 4.07.1 [Character Evidence] & rule 6.23 [Impeachment by Reputation for Untruthfulness & Rebuttal])

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8.41. STATE OF MIND docx
8.43. STATEMENT FOR DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT docx
8.45. STATEMENT OF PAIN, ILLNESS, OR CONDITION BY AN UNAVAILABLE DECLARANT docx
     
8.47. VERBAL ACT docx