After the dying declaration is introduced, how should the court rule on the police report offered into evidence?

The court should rule the police report as inadmissible because it constitutes hearsay without fitting into any recognized exception. Hearsay is defined as an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted, and generally, such statements are inadmissible unless they fall under one of the established exceptions.

While the dying declaration serves as an exception to the hearsay rule, allowing statements made by a declarant who believes they are about to die to be admitted as evidence, this does not make other hearsay evidence, like the police report, admissible simply by association. Police reports often recount statements made by individuals who are not in court to testify and typically lack the spontaneity and reliability that characterize exceptions like dying declarations.

In this case, unless the police report has a specific exception that applies (such as a business record or a public record), it would be excluded based on its hearsay nature. Therefore, the ruling aligns with the principle that statements outside the courtroom cannot typically be used as evidence to substantiate the truth of the matters they assert, unless they meet a specific hearsay exception.