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To: spacejunkie2001

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.


578 posted on 07/02/2013 8:49:47 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

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.


611 posted on 07/02/2013 8:58:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lurking Libertarian

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.


685 posted on 07/02/2013 9:25:04 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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