Carr's testimony is one of the earliest recorded uses of the dying declaration exception to the inadmissibility of hearsay evidence in United States legal code.
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The first use of the dying declaration exception in American law was in the 1770 murder trial of the British soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre.
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The detectives asked the doctor to tell the boy that he was dying so they could take a dying declaration that would be admissible in court.
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The victim, Lisa Taylor, 35, told detectives the name of the young man who shot her in what one police official described as a dying declaration.
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A letter left behind by Custer, now considered his dying declaration, names the culprits and absolves the Native Americans of all responsibility; Custer has won his final campaign.
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For example, in the dying declaration of Clifton Chambers in 1988, he stated that ten years earlier, he had helped his son bury a man whom the son had killed by accident.
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However, there was no physical evidence of a crime, and since Chambers was not the victim, his dying declaration was not admissible as evidence, and the son was never brought to trial.
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King was court-martialled on 13 15 February, but acquitted, after Murphy's dying declaration was ruled inadmissible, and two officers from F Company provided perjured alibis for Captain King at the time of the shootings.
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Gupta claimed Adnan made a dying declaration to the local police chief that he and another Lashkar member had carried out the July attack using guns and grenades on Hindu slum dwellers in Qasimnagar, on the outskirts of Jammu.
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In fact, Brewer executed a total of five affidavits claiming that he killed Monte Tewksbury, but each contained a different version of the events that did not conform to the physical evidence at the scene of the crime or Tewksbury's dying declarations.
