12.6.4 Admissions Against Interest

Partners who are abusive may make admissions to investigating police officers relative to acts of violence. Although they often minimize or justify their behavior, even the minimized behavior they admit to may constitute battery or assault which would constitute grounds for a protective order or finding of family violence. Such admissions are admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule.1

• 1La. C.E. arts. 801(D)(2), 804(B)(3). The applicable rule depends on the circumstances.