[BuckeyeTexan]

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.

[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 have not been following the trial that closely, but if the prosecution called the author to the stand to repeat what Zimmerman told him, that is not barred by the hearsay rule because any party is allowed to introduce out-of-court statements made by the opposing party.