Breaking a leg

[RJNorton]

Do we have an attorney on the forum? What is hearsay?

Why do we trivialize Booth’s own statement that he broke his leg while jumping?

To me, hearsay is when one person says something to another and then that person testifies to it, not the person himself. Or the oral words of a dead person (as reported by another person) would be hearsay IMO.

But the written word of a dead person to me is different - why would that be hearsay? I am not an attorney, but off my personal understanding of what hearsay is, I would think a judge would allow the diary over the words of dead people or what one person reported another person said.