What are the foundational requirements for former testimony?
What will be an ideal response?
1) The witness must be shown to be unavailable in accordance with one of the situations set forth in FRE 804(a).
2) The testimony sought to be introduced must have been under oath and subject to cross-examination.
3) Either the opponent of the testimony or a party with a similar motive must have had an opportunity to question the declarant in the earlier proceeding by way of direct examination, cross-examination, or re-direct examination. Former testimony may not be used against a criminal defendant who was not a party to the earlier proceeding.
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Stoics believe in predestination
In the Tuskegee Study, study subjects failed to receive treatment for:
A. AIDS. B. heart disease. C. cancer. D. syphilis.
The police function of controlling crime by intervening in situations when the law has been violated and the police must apprehend the guilty person is called:
a. community measures. b. order maintenance. c. service. d. law enforcement. e. departmental order.
A knowledge of the normal distribution:
a. assists us in understanding statistical inference. b. enables us to generalize about populations. c. is valuable as a comparative tool when several normal distributions are compared. d. All of the above.