Legal Opinion
Mitchell v. Archibald
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided January 28, 1998No. 01A01-9706-CV-00264PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOCH, Judge.
This appeal involves the admissibility of an audio recording of the statement of an eyewitness to an accident involving a bicyclist and a city-owned dump truck. The bicyclist filed suit against the city and the driver of the truck in the Circuit Court for Davidson County. When the only disinterested eyewitness to the accident disclosed during the trial that intervening brain surgery had impaired his memory, the trial court permitted the defendants to introduce an audio recording of a statement given by the witness less than one week after the incident. The trial court,…
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