Concept information
Preferred term
hearsay
Definition
- Hearsay testimony is secondhand evidence; in hearsay, witnesses talk not about what they know personally, but about what they have been told by other persons. For instance, if a defendant is charged with uttering certain words, witnesses are permitted to testify that they heard the defendant speak the words. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Hearsay]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/hearsay
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