Is It Hearsay?

Welcome to
Is It Hearsay?

Welcome to Is It Hearsay?
A CJER Online Course
California Center for Judicial Education and Research

This course is about how to identify what is and what is not hearsay. We will provide some text concerning our recommended method of analysis followed by related quizzes.

Online Coursework Credit	Hours
Minimum education requirements, expectations, or recommendations, including fairness and access	1
Special education requirement—family	n/a
Special education recommendation—juvenile	n/a
Qualifying judicial ethics	n/a
DV component	n/a
Temporary judge training	n/a
MCLE Credit (nonparticipatory)	1
Legal Ethics	n/a
Elimination of Bias	n/a
Substance Abuse / Mental Illness	n/a

We'll give you feedback throughout and provide links to applicable authority. These quizzes are for your own practice only; no record is made of any of your responses. The program takes about one hour to complete.

The "Resources" and "Help" buttons will be available to you throughout the course. Just click on them whenever you'd like more information.

When you finish the entire course, we'll ask you to fill out an online evaluation and print out a certificate for your files so you can verify that you took this course.

Good luck dealing with these issues.

After completing this course, we encourage you to take the course Civil Trial Evidence: I Object! at the QStream website. QStream is a site designed to harness the educational benefits of spaced, follow-up online questions and answers.

This is the first in our series of online courses on Evidence.

Creating this online course has been a group effort. The list of credits below is eloquent testimony to the number of people and many hours that went into its creation.

But development of an online course does not end here. Feedback from those who take the course is critical to its evolution and the design of future courses. We expect to offer more online judicial education courses in this and many other areas. By submitting your evaluation and comments after taking this course, you will become part of the development team and help refine the model for future courses.

Thanks in advance for taking time to contribute to the development of CJER's judicial education online course library.

This program was written and produced by Tim Hallahan with significant help from Steve Boga, Hon. Judy Hersher, and Prof. George Fisher of Stanford Law School. Mandy Covey was the graphic artist and programmer.

Many thanks to the following judicial officers and AOC staff who gave generously of their time and whose thoughtful comments contributed significantly to the development of this course.

Hon. Ken Burr
Hon. Daniel Buckley
Hon. Judy Hersher
Hon. Fred Morrison

CJER Staff

Karen M. Thorson, Director
Karene Alvarado and Bob Schindewolf, Managing Attorneys
Ralph McMullan, Supervising Media Production Specialist
Iris Okura, Senior Editor

Updated as of January 1, 2012.