WILKES-BARRE — Antoine McNeal’s trial began this morning for the alleged slaying of 20-year-old Brandon Smith, but McNeal’s attorney zeroed in on one of Smith’s dying utterances. Smith was shot twice ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — One of the Alameda mass shooting victims made a dying declaration after he and four family members were shot in their beach-side home, according to a police report obtained by ...

An appeals court has ordered a new trial for two men convicted of arranging the murder of an alleged drug dealer who made dying declarations implicating the pair in the crime, finding the declarations ...

Correction: The story has been updated to reflect that Detective David Kahley works for the West York Police Department. York City Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Jesus ...

Supreme Court Friday ruled that a dying declaration cannot be rejected because of a time lag between a victim giving statement and subsequent death. It said such declaration need not necessarily be ...

Livley Stratton was indicted Thursday for the murder of four men at an apartment in South Beaumont on Sunday, Sept 29, 2019. In no particular order, the men killed: Bobby Wyatt, 39, Shannon Sutton, 23 ...

Similar to its federal counterpart, Indiana Rule of Evidence 804(b)(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement that the declarant, while believing the declarant's death to be ...

Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for dying declarations. Specifically, it provides an exception, [i]n a prosecution for homicide or in a civil case, ...

Orissa high court has upheld life sentences for two men convicted in a 1995 murder. Judges relied on the victim's clear, consistent oral dying declaration, identifying his attackers. Despite defence ...