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Title 24. EVIDENCE

Chapter 8. HEARSAY

15 sections · 24-8-801 to 24-8-827

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Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

  1. 24-8-801Definitions.
  2. 24-8-802Hearsay rule.
  3. 24-8-803Hearsay rule exceptions; availability of declarant immaterial.
  4. 24-8-804Hearsay rule exceptions; declarant unavailable.
  5. 24-8-805Hearsay within hearsay.
  6. 24-8-806Attacking and supporting credibility of a declarant.
  7. 24-8-807Residual exception.

Article 2. ADMISSIONS AND CONFESSIONS

  1. 24-8-820Testimony as to child’s description of sexual contact or physical abuse.
  2. 24-8-821Admissions in pleadings.
  3. 24-8-822Right to have whole conversation heard.
  4. 24-8-823Admissions and confessions received with care; no conviction on uncorroborated confession.
  5. 24-8-824Only voluntary confessions admissible.
  6. 24-8-825Confessions under spiritual exhortation, promise of secrecy, or collateral benefit admissible.
  7. 24-8-826Medical reports in narrative form.
  8. 24-8-827Statements of mentally incapacitated persons age 17 or older.