Hugh Mundy

Hugh Mundy is a professor of law. His areas of focus include criminal law and justice for marginalized communities.

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Law review written by UIC Law Professor Marc Ginsberg and Director of Law Reviews Hugh Mundy was recently published by the University of Baltimore Law Review. Read an excerpt below.

“There is no doubt that “true hearsay ‘exceptions’ . . . require a guarantee of trustworthiness.” Whether a trustworthiness guarantee is realistic is another, important matter. This paper focuses on Federal Rule of Evidence (F.R.E.) 803(4), and analogous state evidentiary rules. F.R.E. 803(4) provides that a “[s]tatement made for medical diagnosis or treatment. . . . [I]s made for—and is reasonably pertinent to—medical diagnosis or treatment; and . . . describes medical history; past or present symptoms or sensations; their inception; or their general cause”