Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're diving into a fundamental concept in legal trials -- evidence. We'll discuss the foundation that evidence is built around – relevance, and then we'll focus on the most important topic in all of evidence – hearsay. We'll learn what hearsay is, why the law distrusts it, and the major ways it still gets admitted. And we'll finish with a fact pattern that illustrates how hearsay is tested on an exam.

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In this episode we discuss:

Evidence law and relevance
What is defined as "hearsay" and what is "non-hearsay"?
Most common hearsay exceptions
A fact pattern walkthrough

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