{"id":1671,"date":"2013-07-08T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2013-07-06T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T12:54:28","slug":"a-partys-statement-defeats-motorcycletruck-injury-case-jordan-v-binns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/a-partys-statement-defeats-motorcycletruck-injury-case-jordan-v-binns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Party\u2019s Statement Defeats Motorcycle\/Truck Injury Case; Jordan v. Binns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca7.uscourts.gov\/\">Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals<\/a> in Chicago found that an injured motorcyclist\u2019s husband\u2019s statement\u00a0was an admissible statement for the jury to hear and not barred as hearsay. The man\u00a0told a state trooper that although his wife was severely injured, she said to him:<span>\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m sorry.<span>\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s not the trucker\u2019s fault.It was mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Betty Jordan, the motorcyclist, was severely injured when her motorcycle collided with a semi-trailer truck on an Indianapolis interstate highway.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Both of Jordan&#8217;s legs were amputated at the knees.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The Jordans filed suit against the trucker and his employer for negligence and loss of consortium.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After a jury verdict for the defendants, the plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that the district court erred in ruling that the state trooper\u2019s testimony &#8212; about what the husband told him &#8212; was hearsay under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/rules\/fre\/rule_801\">Federal Rule of Evidence (FRE) 801.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/a-partys-statement-defeats-motorcycletruck-injury-case-jordan-v-binns\/#more-1671\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago found that an injured motorcyclist\u2019s husband\u2019s statement\u00a0was an admissible statement for the jury to hear and not barred as hearsay. The man\u00a0told a state trooper that although his wife was severely injured, she said to him:\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u00a0It\u2019s not the trucker\u2019s fault.It was mine.\u201d Betty Jordan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,47,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-motorcycle-accidents","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Party\u2019s Statement Defeats Motorcycle\/Truck Injury Case; Jordan v. 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