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• n  gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
• s  heard through another rather than directly
  hearsay information

• Second, the use of hearsay will be limited, so that the burden will no longer be on the party who objects to hearsay to disprove its reliability.
• We know that some of these things can only be hearsay because by his own testimony he was only small potatoes in the mob.
• But Adams refused to repeat his confession on the stand, the tape made by the lie detector expert was barred as hearsay evidence, and the all-white jury took only 90 minutes to .

• rumor
• rumour

News & Articles

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• Alamo attorney rebuts FBI affidavit
  TEXARKANA — An attorney for convicted evangelist Tony Alamo said an FBI agent’s affidavit that Alamo controls property that is listed in the names of members of his ministry is based on “speculation” and “hearsay.”
  June 30, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
• Alamo attorney calls affidavit "speculation"
  An attorney for convicted evangelist Tony Alamo calls an FBI agent's affidavit "hearsay."
  June 30, 2013 - KTHV Little Rock
• Alamo attorney says affidavit is 'speculation' - WXVT-TV Delta News - More Local News and Weather WXVT.com |
  TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) - An attorney for convicted evangelist Tony Alamo says an FBI agent's affidavit that Alamo controls property that's listed in the names of members of his ministry is based on "speculation ... and/or hearsay."
  June 29, 2013 - WXVT 15 Greenville

Quotes

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• Terrell Owens in USA Today
  That's all hearsay,Owens said. "If you look at all the comments coming from my teammates with the Cowboys the last three years, it's all been positive. Prior to that, I really don't want to get into it."
• Patrick Fitzgerald in FOXNews
  We might as well take 'Wigmore on Evidence' and replace it with 'Imus on Evidence,' Fitzgerald said, referencing the classic treatise on evidentiary law. "There's no Imus exception to the hearsay rule. This has no business in a federal...
• Omar Minaya in USA Today
  Records are made to be broken,Mets general manager Omar Minaya said. "I don't deal in hearsay. I look at what a guy does on the field. I don't deal with what people say. What he did in the 2002 World Series, I never saw anyone dominate...