Der Zeuge vom Horensagen im deutschen und US-amerikanischen Strafproze

»Hearsay Witness in German and U.S.-American Criminal Procedure Law«The main problem of hearsay witness is its dubious reliability for truth finding. The comparative law thesis is devoted to the question whether U.S.-American criminal procedural law creates greater legal certainty with the hearsay rule, so that a determined legal regulation would also be desirable for German law. Although hearsay evidence is generally inadmissible, the Federal Rules of Evidence contain almost 30 hearsay exceptions which in fact lead to a perforation of the supposedly strict rule.