Hearsay Exceptions: Former Testimony and Dying Declarations

Published for NC Criminal Law on March 17, 2014.

Rule 804 contains five hearsay exceptions that apply when the declarant is unavailable. I addressed one of them—the residual exception—in a prior post. Another one of the five—statements of family history—rarely arises in the criminal law so I won’t spend any time on it. In this post I’ll tackle two of the Rule 804 exceptions: ... Read more

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