Court filing challenges admissibility of hearsay in Maxwell-related case

10 id. 12 13 14 L5 16 ne) 18 life) 20 21 22 23 24 25 119 H3vlgiu2 eventually Ms. Maxwell says, you know, I'm not really sure what he went to jail for. It had something to do with, she thinks -- Ms. Maxwell teenage prostitution or under-age prostitution or something like that. That certainly doesn't give you the ability then to ram in 400 pages of uncorroborated hearsay under the idea that somehow this is notice to somebody. And I think there is one other factual claim that they make about, you know, what Ms. Maxwell should have known, which is not the standard. It is not incumbent upon an individual defendant to go investigate things. That's not the standard. It seems to me that they have conceded that these documents are hearsay because they're saying, we're not offering them for the truth of the matter asserted; we want to offer it for this knowledge theory that we have. So I've briefed the issue about business records, which they are not. I've briefed the issue about government police records, which they are police records, but essentially the same tests for business records applies to police records, which is, you have to be under a business duty to record the information, and court after court after court after court, across the country, has said, people in police reports, like witnesses, are not under a business duty as part of the police department. So all of those statements, the second- and thirdhand hearsay statements, are inadmissible, either as government records or police records or whatever you want to SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011422