Quote (Jere @ Nov 30 2020 09:07pm)
Let's play a game shall we?
Are sworn affidavits hearsay:
Okay, definitely can be considered hearsay, but wait.... This was a paragraph not a sentence. Let's continue.
Well well well.... It doesn't look like either Giuliani, Powell, or Wood is using the affidavits to assert the truth.The lawsuits seem to be using them to support the evidence as eye witnesses, there's another sentence though... Let's extrapolate it!
Interesting! When you read from the start all the way to the end. Even in just a paragraph the entire narrative changes!
Game Over!
Testimony about what you personally witnessed is not hearsay. So if you sign an affidavit about what you personally witnessed, it is not hearsay, it is testimony about your first person account.
If your affidavit says what you heard others say, then if you heard then you hearing what that person said might not be hearsay, but the truth of what that person said being supported by your testimony is hearsay.
So a testimony that says "I heard the manager say to commit voter fraud", then you can testify to the manager's orders, but you can't testify to whether they were carried out. So for the purposes of the manager's orders, not hearsay, for the purposes of voter fraud, hearsay.