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Rule 801A Prior statements of witnesses and admissions
(a)
(b)
(c)
Prior statements of witnesses. A statement is not excluded by the hearsay
rule, even though the declarant is available as a witness, if the declarant
testifies at the trial or hearing and is examined concerning the statement, with a
foundation laid as required by KRE 613, and the statement is:
(1) Inconsistent with the declarant's testimony;
(2) Consistent with the declarant's testimony and is offered to rebut an
express or implied charge against the declarant of recent fabrication or
improper influence or motive; or
(3) One of identification of a person made after perceiving the person.
Admissions of parties. A statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule, even
though the declarant is available as a witness, if the statement is offered
against a party and is:
(1) The party's own statement, in either an individual or a representative
capacity;
(2) A statement of which the party has manifested an adoption or belief in its
truth;
(3) A statement by a person authorized by the party to make a statement
concerning the subject;
(4) A statement by the party's agent or servant concerning a matter within the
scope of the agency or employment, made during the existence of the
relationship; or
(5) A statement by a coconspirator of a party during the course and in
furtherance of the conspiracy.
Admission by privity:
(1) Wrongful death. A statement by the deceased is not excluded by the
hearsay rule when offered as evidence against the plaintiff in an action for
wrongful death of the deceased.
(2) Predecessors in interest. Even though the declarant is available as a
witness, when a right, title, or interest in any property or claim asserted by
a party to a civil action requires a determination that a right, title, or
interest existed in the declarant, evidence of a statement made by the
declarant during the time the party now claims the declarant was the
holder of the right, title, or interest is not excluded by the hearsay rule
when offered against the party if the evidence would be admissible if
offered against the declarant in an action involving that right, title, or
interest.
(3) Predecessors in litigation. Even though the declarant is available as a
witness, when the liability, obligation, or duty of a party to a civil action is
based in whole or in part upon the liability, obligation, or duty of the
declarant, or when the claim or right asserted by a party to a civil action is
barred or diminished by a breach of duty by the declarant, evidence of a
statement made by the declarant is not excluded by the hearsay rule
when offered against the party if the evidence would be admissible
against the declarant in an action involving that liability, obligation, duty,
or breach of duty.
Effective:July 1, 1992
History: Enacted 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 56; amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324,
sec. 20; renumbered (7/1/92) pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34.
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