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George Conway responds to Lindsey Grahams claim that evidence against Trump is hearsay...........
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George Conway
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... under Rule 804(b)(3) s exception to the hearsay rule for statements against penal or other interest;
* To the extent Trump was involved in a criminal conspiracy with... @RudyGiuliani
, Giulianis statements are also admissible against Trump and ...
George Conway
@gtconway3d
... are not hearsay under Rule 801(d)(2)(E);
* The memorandum of Trumps call with Zelensky is admissible under as many as four separate exceptions to the hearsay rulenamely, Rules 803(1) (present sense impression), 803(5) (recorded recollection), 803(6) (record of a ...
12:18 PM · Sep 28, 2019 from Princeton Junction, NJ·Twitter for iPad
George Conway @gtconway3d
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... regularly conducted activity), and 803(8) (record of a public office).
* In any event, you can be indicted in this country on the basis of hearsay. It happens all the time. And an impeachment is the consitutional equivalent of an indictment. So it follows that the ...
George Conway
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... House can consider hearsay in deciding whether to begin an impeachment inquiry, just as prosecutors can consider hearsay in deciding whether to convene a grand jury.
George Conway
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So your argument, Senator, is pure garbage, even assuming that the rules of evidence apply in the impeachment process.
George Conway
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But that assumption is trash, too. The hearsay rule neednt apply even in a Senate trial:
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Dear Senator Graham:
Senate rules call for the use of hearsay in impeachment, in that committees hear the testimony and report back to the full Senate. It even went to the Supreme Court!
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/506/224/
George Conway
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In the President Clintons trial in 1998, testimony wasnt even taken before a committee, in contrast to the Walter Nixon trial that @popehat
mentions; it was taken in lawyers offices (as Senator Graham should recall, since he was a House manager in that trial).
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George Conway responds to Lindsey Grahams claim that evidence against Trump is hearsay........... (Original Post)
riversedge
Sep 2019
OP
I am waiting for the news of his filing of dissolution of marriage to Kellyanne....
Pachamama
Sep 2019
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)1. I am waiting for the news of his filing of dissolution of marriage to Kellyanne....
That will be a day that we all know that George Conway is a free soul from the evil that binds him....and free to speak even more freely...
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)2. "Hearsay" is the Republican talking point of the day
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)3. Well. . . Trump didn't consider hearsay or circumstantial evidence to be a problem when he called
for the execution of the Central Park Five now did he?
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)4. So Graham is Trump dog?
What a bitch...