Giammares v. Allemania Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• “Whether there are exceptional guarantees of trustworthiness is a determination that focuses on the declarant and the circumstances under which the declarant made the 13 statement to the witness.” (emphasis in original)
• “statement made to a close personal friend” was sufficiently trustworthy under Rule 807 where the witness and declarant “had known [each other] for three decades” and “maintained a close relationship”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).