Criminal Evidence

The conspirator rule is an exception to hearsay rule that allows acts and statements of one plotter, as long as they were narrated or done during or in furtherance of conspiracy, so as to be admitted into evidence at trial of another conspirator, even if done or narrated in the defendant say A’s absence. In most federal court and in some states, that act or statement is admissible even done or uttered after the conspirators have been arrested and put in custody.

Hearsay is a rule of law whereby matter of fact that is forwarded for investigation at a judicial trial is established or disapproved. As a legal profession, one should be well conversant to the hearsay rule from beginning to the end. By stating a statement not admissible, then one cannot include something as admission of someone’s guilt or innocence.

According to (Fenner & Michael (2003), this statement is offered against a party. The statement made by a coconspirator of a party during the process, and in furtherance of conspiracy. Then, the statements may be considered but not reliable in establishing the occurrence of conspiracy, and the participation there in of witness and party against whom statements are offered under subdivisions. 

The hearsay exceptions are most relevant in child sexual abuse cases because, hearsay is rarely admissible in the legal testimony. This is because is considered unreliable and often inaccurate. Consequently, all the exceptions to the hearsay rule would apply regardless of the case. The two types of hearsay in criminal sexual abuse of a minor are the hearsay supplied by an adult witness and videotaped hearsay. However, special circumstances and events in the two hearsays, the jury is served with the forensic video tape of the child in question in the event of disclosure of the abuse and the officer of the police who is carrying out the investigation.

For the defendant to be proven guilt, the jurors have to believe the video taped fully disclosed the information to the interviewees. In the adult witness hearsay, the, the jury accepts the evidence from the adult person in any natural case. However all the factual and real expectations to the hearsay stand; Cases such as child abuse require special circumstances dictate special assumption to the rule. This might even require medical checkups in sex child abuse to give credibility to the allegations.

In addition, the adult disclosure heresy, the courts accept evidence made by individuals of right mind to physicians and medical personnel for the reasons of medical treatment or diagnosis. It is taken as factual in the assumption that patients seeking treatment disclose to physicians of their health. Therefore, hearsay especially in sexual abuse charges is weighed to be crucial evidence.