Please complete this assignment. It is a strict deadline assignment. It is due on Thursday October 15, 2020 at 5:00 P.M EASTERN TIME. Visit these websites to do your research and get more information on the Federal Rules of Evidence and the exceptions to hearsay. You can also visit other websites not listed. Also view the attachments below.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/[email protected]/title28a/node218&edition=prelim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Rules_of_Evidence
https://lawshelf.com/videocoursesmoduleview/introduction-to-the-rules-of-evidence-module-1-of-6/
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_803
1. What are the purposes of the Federal Rules of Evidence?
2. Explain the balancing test that judges use to determine the admissibility of relevant evidence.
3. Why is habit evidence generally admissible while character evidence is generally inadmissible?
4. A. What is hearsay?
B. What is the purpose of the hearsay rule?
5. The FRE contains 27 delineated exceptions to the hearsay rule as well as the catchall exception. Have the exceptions subsumed the rule against the inadmissibility of hearsay evidence? Explain.