What is a Hearsay?

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Something that is not based on the personal knowledge of a witness. Witnesses who testify about something they have heard, for example, are offering hearsay by repeating information about a matter of which they have no direct knowledge.

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Crimes can have legally acceptable justifications or excuses

a. True b. False

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The technique of nondirective or employee-centered counseling, in which the supervisor stimulates the individual to discover his own problem and decide on a course of action to correct it, has been found to be not particularly helpful

a. True b. False

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What rationale led the Court to hold that the St. Paul in R.A.V. violated the First Amendment while it held Mitchell’s First Amendment rights were not violated by a Wisconsin law a year later?

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The right to a fair trial is found in the ______ Amendment

a. Third b. Fourth c. Fifth d. Sixth

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