IANAL but a cursory review of the exceptions to the hearsay rule indicate:
d) a writing about an event made close to the time it occurred, which may be used during trial to refresh a witness’s memory about the event;
I could be off in left field, but this guy wrote a book.
Yeh....but it’s HIS book and HIS words and has his literary inflections. In other words...it’s not like it’s a recording or approved by GZ for that matter.
If you have time, could you address why an author’s testimony about a book he wrote documenting George Zimmerman’s account of the Trayvon Martin shooting would not be hearsay? Note that the author is a very close personal friend of Zimmerman and a former police officer.
I’ve speculated that it could the following exception:
d) a writing about an event made close to the time it occurred, which may be used during trial to refresh a witness’s memory about the event;
If you don’t have time or don’t care to give an opinion, no big deal - as always. It’s just a curiosity on my part.