Testimony of a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question, but who heard about it second-hand from someone else. Hearsay is generally inadmissible as direct evidence in court because it does not allow an accused to confront his accusers and is not as reliable as first-hand testimony, but there are many exceptions to the hearsay rule. Description/translation of ouï-dire in Spanish: término que en el proceso penal suele traducirse por “de referencia”; Hearsay statement: Testimonio de Referencia; Declaring by hearsay: Declarante o testigo de referencia; hearsay witness: Testigo de Referencia, Testigo Referencial; Explanation of hearsay use: declaración sin valor testifical[1] Lamb, Michael E., et al. 2000. Accuracy of investigators` verbatim notes of their forensic interviews with alleged victims of child abuse. Law and Human Behavior 24 (6): 699-708. Warren, Amye R. et al., 2002. The credibility of children and the hearsay testimony of their interviewer: when less is more. Journal of Applied Psychology 87 (5): 846-857.
Substantiv. [`ˈɛvədəns`] (Act) means by which alleged facts, the veracity of which is the subject of a judicial investigation, are established or refuted. Verb. [`ˈɛvədəns`] provide evidence of; serve as evidence of; are shown by their own behaviour, attitude or external attributes. McGough, Lucy S. 1994. Kinderzeugen: Fragile Voices in the American Legal System. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Name.
[`ˈhiːrˌseɪ`] Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and falsehood) was transmitted orally. Written or oral evidence proving the existence of a. (Read more) Name. [`ˈɛvədəns`] your basis of belief or disbelief; Knowledge on which faith is based. Search dictionaries by the Supreme Court, 6. January and the weekend of July 4, Buck, Julie A., Amye R. Warren and John C. Brigham. 2004. When Does Quality Matter? Perceptions of testimonies, from hearsay to interviews with child sexual abuse. Law and Human Behavior 28(6): 599-621.
Warren, Amye R., and Cara E. Woodall. 1999. The Reliability of Hearsay: To What extent do interviewers remember their interviews with children? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 5(2): 355-371. Ross, David, Amye R. Warren, and Lucy S. McGough, eds. 1999. Forward: Hearsay testimony in trials with childhood witnesses. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 5(2): 251-254. Federal Rules of Evidence. 2005.
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing House. judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/109th/evid2005.pdf. Definition of hearsay, published by the National Association for Court Management: Hearsay is a statement different from that made by the witness who testified at trial, presented as evidence to prove that the case alleged in the testimony is true.