Nor is hearsay.
Also the court seems to fail to address the obvious conflict of interest position of the one uttering the said hearsay evidence.
And you also seem very happy to ignore that fact.
In matters much less serious then life or death decision where one stands to gain financially,people have to recuse themselves from participating in decision making on boards everywhere.
I seem to recall a hell of a fuss being made over Cheney's past relation to Halliburton, and Iraq contracys, soldiers dying for oil and blah blah blah.
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but like it or not, Michael is the husband, and there is a legal precedence as to the utterance between a huband and wife. He may have broken his vows according to the church but that is a matter for the church.