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In her article, The Reliability of Assault Victims’ Immediate Accounts: Evidence from Trauma Studies, Melissa Hamilton of the University of Texas delves into social science research to question whether there is a scientific basis underpinning the assumptions that justify certain hearsay rules, in particular the “excited utterance” exception to the hearsay rule.
The excited utterance exception, codified in Evidence Rule…