F.T. v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “which is simply the price affixed to the retail item at the time it was stolen.... [W]e do not agree that a business records foundation must be laid before a witness is permitted to testify to her contemporaneous observation of the contents of the price tag affixed to the stolen item of retail merchandise.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 So. 3d 407 - L.A. v. State

2. “If a person steals a shirt from a store and the price stated on the tag affixed to the shirt is $100, the content of that price tag is not hearsay because it is not coming in to prove the truth of the matter asserted but only to establish what the tag”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 So. 3d 407 - L.A. v. State

3. “'Hearsay' is a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gonzalez v. State