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Subject: Re: MOD: Tone it down please...this post is not admissible as evidence.

Author: Dennis Lothspeich

Date: 10:34:02 12/17/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 12:20:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 17, 1999 at 06:04:27, robert michelena wrote:
>
>>Jerome, as a third year law student, I was only pointing out what to me is self
>>evident; these assertions that the player on the other end of the internet
>>connection used brain power to defeat a program would not be admissible in any
>>court of law as valid evidence.  We call it hearsay.
>
>BTW, if you continue to use that definition of hearsay, you won't pass your
>BAR.  If you ask _me_ on a witness stand whether _I_ have beaten a commercial
>program at 40/2, and I say "yes" that is _not_ hearsay.  That is direct
>testimony.  Hearsy would be if I responded "I haven't, but my friend told me
>that he had."
>

I can confirm, as an attorney who has passed the Bar and been practicing for
many years, that Dr. Hyatt is correct.  :-)



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