{"id":6210,"date":"2021-12-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2021-11-23T13:32:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:32:24","slug":"business-records-were-not-hearsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6210","title":{"rendered":"Business Records Were Not Hearsay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hearsay\u00a0is an out-of-court statement offered for the truth of the matter stated. On charges of stealing, the State offered rental records to show how property manager stole money, so the records were not hearsay. And, even if they were, the State provided the foundation for admissibility of business records as required by statute: the sponsoring witness was familiar with the records, and records bore indicia of reliability as described by statute. Statutes provide that property manager\u2019s course of conduct, stealing rents, constituted a single act so no plain error occurred when instructions did not treat the case as a multiple acts case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/hearsay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/hearsay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6211\" width=\"195\" height=\"146\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=181157\" target=\"_blank\"><em>State of Missouri vs. Candy M. Phillips<\/em><\/a><br>Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District &#8211; WD83458<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you would like to speak with an attorney, call us at (816) 524-4949 or visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\">website <\/a>to schedule a complimentary consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearsay\u00a0is an out-of-court statement offered for the truth of the matter stated. On charges of stealing, the State offered rental records to show how property manager stole money, so the records were not hearsay. And, even if they were, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6213,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}