law of evidence. Those rules define certain kinds of information that are inadmissible, and which therefore cannot be revealed to the judge or the jurors who are deciding the case. And one of the most famous of those rules is the law of hearsay, which generally prevents the police from telling the judge about information that they have heard from other witnesses—including of course the defendant. So even if your lawyer asks the police officer to tell the jury the “helpful things” you told the police to support your claim of innocence, the prosecutor will object, and the judge will usually
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