Arrington v. Maryland

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that hearsay is “not admissible merely because [it was] contained in a police report”
• “Congress intended that the residual hearsay exceptions will be used very rarely, and only in exceptional circumstances.”
• “We agree with the district court that the police report itself would be admissible as a public record . . . .”
• factual findings based on the public official’s “own observations and knowledge may be admitted but . . . statements made by third persons under no business duty to report may not”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).