Challenging Public Investigative Reports: How to Fight the Hearsay Exception
Trial, Vol. 27, No. 2, February 1991
6 Pages Posted: 30 May 2009
Date Written: February 1991
Abstract
This paper discusses how attorneys can argue against having government and public reports admitted into evidence at trial that would be damaging to their client. When this paper was done, such reports were admitted via Federal Rule of Evidence 803(8)(C). The authors argue that it is possible to challenge admission of factual findings in public reports despite various court decisions which make this difficult.
Keywords: Investigative reports, trials, evidence, hearsay exception, government reports, Federal Rule of Evidence 803(8)(C),
JEL Classification: K39, K49
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Grossman, Steven P. and Shapiro, Stephen J., Challenging Public Investigative Reports: How to Fight the Hearsay Exception (February 1991). Trial, Vol. 27, No. 2, February 1991, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1411760
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