Hearsay
This is the person who made the original statement.
What is declarant?
This privilege covers conversations between clients and attorneys.
What is the attorney-client privilege?
This is the term for the act of taking possession of a person or property.
What is seizure?
This Supreme Court case set the standard for the use of deadly force by police officers.
What is Tennessee v Garner?
These laws prevents the questioning of the sexual history of victims in rape trials.
What are rape shield laws?
Hearsay threatens this Constitutional Right.
What is the 6th Amendment's Confrontation Clause?
This privilege covers communications between spouses.
What is the husband-wife privilege?
This type of burden of proof is mentioned in the 4th Amendment.
What is probable cause?
This factor when assessing the right to use physical force looks at what the facts reasonably appear to be.
What is reasonable force?
This type of evidence is based on personal knowledge or observation of the person testifying. No inference is needed.
What is direct evidence?
This is when hearsay is embedded in another hearsay.
What is double hearsay?
This privilege allows police officers to withhold the names of confidential informants.
What is the police informant privilege?
For a search warrant to be issued, a written document taken under oath is required. This document is called...
What is an affidavit?
To conduct a Terry Stop, a police officer needs at a minimum...
What is reasonable suspicion?
This type of evidence indirectly proves a fact and is based on inference.
What is circumstantial evidence?
A defendant's confession can be admitted under this exception to hearsay.
What is the admission of a party exception?
In order for communication to be privileged, there must be an expectation of
What is confidentiality?
This is the legal term that refers to the right to ask the court to take legal action.
What is standing?
For a school official to conduct a search on a student, the school official needs at least...
What is reasonable suspicion?
This is the latin term that literally means the method of operation.
What is modus operandi?
This exception to hearsay is for statements that have previously been made under oath.
What is the former testimony exception?
This privilege covers conversations with ordained ministers.
What is the clergy-penitent privilege?
Officers may conduct this in order to prevent attacks on them when they execute a search warrant.
What is a protective sweep?
This term is used when police officers, after an arrest, conduct a search of the arrestee and the area under their immediate control.
What is a search incident to an arrest?
The prosecution is not allowed to attack the defendant's ________ unless the defendant has placed ________ at issue.
What is character?