311 Ga. App. 344 - Hammock v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “Here, the witnesses did not offer any testimony about what someone else said or wrote outside of court. Rather, they testified about their personal observations of the conduct that appeared on the videotape.... Because this testimony did not ask the jury to assume the truth of out-of-court statements made by others, and instead ‘the value of [the] testimony rested on [the witnesses’] own veracity and competence, the testimony was not hearsay.’... Indeed, ‘the jury was free to disregard testimony that the individual depicted in the surveillance video was [Hammock].’ (Citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yost v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review