Betty Jordan v. Kelly Binns

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• noting that the presumption of reliability underlying the public-records exception does not attach to statements by third parties who themselves have no public duty to report
• police reports generally excluded as hearsay except to extent that they incorporate firsthand observations of officer
• “[t]here are only two requirements for admissibility under FRE 801(d)(2)(A): a statement was made by a party, and the statement was offered against that party”
• “There are only two re‐ quirements for admissibility under FRE 801(d)(2)(A): a state‐ ment was made by a party, and the statement was offered against that party.”
• \[T]hird-party statements contained in a police report do not become admissible for their truth by virtue of their presence in a public record and instead must have an independent basis for admissibility.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).