<p>I’m not a Ph.D. I earned a JD instead. I learned that hearsay was inadmissible, for good reason. </p>
<p>I couldn’t even begin to count the times in my legal career that a witness or client insisted that a document had particular wording … and then when I see the document it says nothing of the sort. That’s simply a product of normal fallibility of human memory – so no big deal – but its why lawyers and judges insist on working from actual documents, and not on second-hand reports of what the document said.</p>