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803(24): Statements Against Interest

Rule 803. Exceptions to the Rule Against Hearsay—Regardless of Whether the 
Declarant Is Available as a Witness 
The following are not excluded by the rule against hearsay, regardless of whether the declarant is available as a witness...(24) Statement Against Interest. A statement that: 
(A) a reasonable person in the declarant’s position would have made only if the person believed it to be true because, when made, it was so contrary to the declarant’s proprietary or pecuniary interest or had so great a tendency to invalidate the declarant’s claim against someone else or to expose the 
declarant to civil or criminal liability or to make the declarant an object of 
hatred, ridicule, or disgrace; and 
(B) is supported by corroborating circumstances that clearly indicate its 
trustworthiness, if it is offered in a criminal case as one that tends to expose 
the declarant to criminal liability.