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iBoaterer[_2_]

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On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:34:34 PM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
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> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:38:46 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
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> > Of course, notice I said the witnesses that said the HEARD Zimmerman
> > screaming.....
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> That's still direct testimony of what they heard. It's not hearsay. If a person testified that someone else had told them they heard the screams, that's hearsay, if trying to prove the screaming actually happened.

Oh, so if someone states that they heard something, it's not hearsay?
Good! So the girlfriend's interview answers aren't hearsay! That's what
I've been saying all along.

Uh, no. She can testify to the fact that she talked to him, and to what she heard over the phone, but not to what he *saw*, since she didn't see it herself. IOW, she can't say who walked up to whom, or who threw the first punch, etc. Anything she tries like that would be considered hearsay and inadmissable in court. And, the interviews don't have the same "rules" as courtroom testimony, so she won't be allowed to guess at what was going on like she did in the
interviews.

Got this stuff clear in your head yet?

Holy ****! First you say that it's hearsay if there's no physical
evidence, then you say it's hearsay only if it's first person, then you
say that not hearsay because she didn't *SEE* anything!!!!