"Admissibility" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the Judge Advocate, as to his distinction about the admissibility of the testimony on the ground of its not being technically what is called hearsay evidence," he observed; "but a difficulty suggests itself to my mind touching the pairtenency. A witness is sworn to speak to the ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... courts-martial; the end sought for being the truth, these rules laid down for the attainment of that end must be intrinsically the same in both cases. These rules constitute the law of evidence, and involve the quality, admissibility, and effect of evidence and its application to the purposes of ...
— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various
... Rutledge and Murphy dissented in part, assigning among their reasons therefor their belief that the "subsequent confessions, * * *, were vitiated with all the coercion which destroys admissibility of the first one." According to Justice Rutledge, "a stricter standard is necessary where the confession tendered follows a prior coerced one than in the case of a single confession * * *. Once a coerced confession ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin |
