Multistate Bar Examination Practice Question

The best explanation for sustaining the objection is that testimony offered in a court of law generally requires the witness to have direct, personal knowledge of the event being testified to, as prescribed by the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE 602). Personal knowledge ensures the credibility and reliability of the testimony by restricting it to what the witness has directly observed or experienced. Here, the witness's testimony about the accident is based solely on what their neighbor said, not on their own observations. This makes the testimony inadmissible under the rules of personal knowledge. Other answers are incorrect because they either misapply the rules of evidence, focus on irrelevant factors, or incorrectly interpret the objection's basis.