Facts:John has been arrested for attempted murder

Section One
Directions: Read the following hypothetical situation. Upon
completion, please identify all points at which hearsay is present, also
listing any possible exceptions that may apply.
Facts:John has been arrested for attempted murder. His
accuser, Lisa, claims that John tried to poison her by putting arsenic in her
coffee. The following witnesses are being asked to testify at trial:
Karl works at a hardware store and recalls John’s buying a box
of arsenic. As Karl wrote out the receipt, John said, we’ve got a real pest
I’ve got to get rid of.”
Tina is John’s sister. She claims that John’s friend, Mike,
admitted that he poisoned the coffee. However, Mike apparently drank out of the
wrong cup and wound up poisoning himself. Mike slowly sank into a coma and died
before he could testify.
Fred is being asked to testify that he saw John putting a
substance into a cup that Lisa was drinking from.
Stella is John’s former girlfriend. She claims that John
told her, “I’m gonna get even with Lisa one of these days.”
Hal was an inmate in the same jail cell as John. Hal claims
that John told him, “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Ralph wants to testify that he heard Lisa state, “I’m
going to make sure John spends the rest of his life in jail by poisoning
myself.”
Ruby is going to recount at a worker’s compensation hearing
the substance of a conversation that she had with Lisa in which Lisa admitted
that she was not really too emotionally upset to work, as she had previously
claimed.
Section Two
Directions: Describe, in detail, the process in your state
(or under F.R.C.P.) for serving a defendant by publication. (Include when it is
allowed and the steps leading up to service by publication.)
Describe the process for obtaining a default judgment
according to either your state or the federal rules of civil procedure.