Things that your expert said already about the hearsay exceptions, but there is also another exception called excited utterance. another reason would be to put it in that if he was so startled, by saying he thought he was caught that that is another exception. even if they were an agent of the police, and i don't think they were was this voluntarily made? yes. he contacted them. knowing what the subject matter of the interview was. he came to them after many, many, many discussions. he voluntarily let himself be mic'd up. and it's not the first time knowing that mic is still on when the interv...