Police misconduct can result in the violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ Clauses of due process.​

Case 9.2 Police respond to a third party 911 call and arrive at the scene of domestic violence homicide. Police find the victim underneath his pickup truck, apparently run over. On scene, the man’s wife, blurts out that she could not take his physical abuse and drinking any more. She then says “I didn’t mean to hurt him I just wanted to get away.” The wife has multiple new and old bruises on her body which she claims were from the husband repeatedly beating her while threatening to kill her. ​ Witnesses report that they heard the two fighting and witnessed the husband trying to grab the wife as she ran outside. They observed the wife get into the pickup truck and heard the husband screaming that he wouldn’t let her go as he stood in front of the pickup.  Witnesses report that the wife drove the truck over the husband and then backed up. They further state that the wife called someone the phone and said “it’s done.” Witnesses also tell police that the wife has been seeing another man on the side and that the other man had been with the wife just an hour before the husband/victim had gotten home. ​ Police interview the wife, who claims that she dialed 911 but hung up the phone by accident, because she was in a panic. Police ask the wife to show them her phone but she refuses.  Police check with the dispatch center and fine only one call and that was the one from the witness. ​ Police arrest the wife for the murder of her husband and transport her to police headquarters for processing. She is searched incident to arrest and her phone is taken into evidence.  Police also search the house for additional evidence.  While being transported to headquarters the wife changes her story several times claiming that her husband was screaming that he was going to kill her. Her changing statements are recorded by the in car video system.The police search the defendant’s phone is deemed illegal, but the conversation between the defendant and her lover was caught on a legal wiretap of the lover’s phone as a result an independent investigation in his involvement in drug distribution case. Can the police still introduce the record of the phone conversation between the two on the day of the murder?

Under the Federal Rules of Evidence and in a number of jurisdictions, _____ is specifically defined as not being hearsay.​

​Statements that would otherwise be testimonial and require that the defendant have the right to _____ under the rule of Crawford v. Washington can be admitted if they are not intended to prove the truth of their contents.

Statements offered to prove _____ would be considered to be hearsay.​

Hearsay can be written statements, communicative conduct, or _____.​

If the declarant makes a statement that could subject them to criminal charges, the statement would probably be admissible under the exception for statements _____.

​The use of hearsay is problematic because it involves a violation of the defendant’s right to _____.

Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, the French ______________________________________________ 

In October 1777, American General Horatio Gates won an important victory over the British Army at the battle of ____________________________________.