Manual to allow executions based on hearsay

[dragon-7]

Now this country is mimicking the Soviet Union when it had its most repressive regimes.
Whatever happened to the Constitution????????


Manual to allow executions based on hearsay (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16691101/)

:mad:

[Northshore]

Once we roared like lions for Liberty.

Now we bleat like sheep for security.


I have heard this quote credited to Norman Vincent Peale. Seems to sum up half of the problem here. The other half is that Bushco can't just let these people out and admit in 80% of the cases they were there for no reason. So they have to dispose of them somehow.

[dtwarren]

Now this country is mimicking the Soviet Union when it had its most repressive regimes.
Whatever happened to the Constitution????????


Manual to allow executions based on hearsay (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16691101/)

:mad:

Not all hearsay is inadmissable. Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 802 provides: "Hearsay is not admissible except as provided by these rules or by other rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority or by Act of Congress." Rules 803, 804 and 805 then sets forth various exceptions to the rule against admitting hearsay evidence. Then Rule 807 provides a residual exception and states: "A statement not specifically covered by Rule 803 or 804 but having equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness, is not excluded by the hearsay rule, if the court determines that (A) the statement is offered as evidence of a material fact; (B) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts; and (C) the general purposes of these rules and the interests of justice will best be served by admission of the statement into evidence. However, a statement may not be admitted under this exception unless the proponent of it makes known to the adverse party sufficiently in advance of the trial or hearing to provide the adverse party with a fair opportunity to prepare to meet it, the proponent's intention to offer the statement and the particulars of it, including the name and address of the declarant."

[tomac]

Whatever happened to the Constitution????????
:mad:

Don't talk to W(orthless) about that "Goddamn Scrap of Paper" (his actual words).

:mad:

[dragon-7]

[QUOTE=tomac]Don't talk to W(orthless) about that "Goddamn Scrap of Paper" (his actual words).


[CENTER]You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store.

:)

[dragon-7]

**:)**

[dragon-7]

[QUOTE=tomac]Don't talk to W(orthless) about that "Goddamn Scrap of Paper" (his actual words).




If I was his supervisor would make certain he would manual clean the county comminutor system every day before his break time. So that worthless would feel he was doing something for his pay.

:)

[JustRetired]

Huh??