Criminal law — Evidence — Hearsay — Assessment — Accused convicted of second degree murder at trial
- By: Aswani Datt
- out of court statement
- May 22, 2026
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Evidence relevant to an issue at trial may nevertheless be inadmissible if it is subject to an exclusionary rule, such as the rule against hearsay. Hearsay is an out-of-court statement tendered for the truth of its contents and is defined by the use to which the statement is sought to be put, namely, to prove that what
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New Tort of Intimate Partner Violence is created.
- By: Aswani Datt
- tort
- May 16, 2026
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The new tort is tied to the intimate partnership and is distinct from existing torts in that it seeks to compensate the qualitatively different wrong of coercive control, and the qualitatively different harm of loss of autonomy. It is not simply an aggregate, under a broad umbrella, of wrongful conduct already remedied by various existing
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