If a statement is made by a party and the statement is offered against the party that made the statement, the federal law of evidence characterizes such a statement as non-hearsay and exempts it from the hearsay prohibition found in Federal Rule of Evidence 802 or a comparable State rule even though the exempted statement otherwise satisfies the definition of hearsay given in Rule 801(c) or a comparable State rule.

McDowell v. Brown, 392 F.3d 1283, 1298 (11th Cir. 2004) ("Daubert put forth a two-pronged analysis, used to determine the admissibility of the proffered expert testimony on scientific issues under Rule 702. First, the expert testimony must be reliable, so that it must be 'scientific,' meaning grounded...A field or method that is offered as as a scientific field or method satisfies the requirements for the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule 702 or a comparable State rule only if the field or method is shown to be genuinely scientific.

United States v. Wilson, 249 F.3d 366, 375-376 (5th Cir. 2001) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of the Bahamian bank records under the residual hearsay exception because they possessed the necessary....A statement is admissible under the hearsay exception created by Federal Rule of Evidence 807 or a comparable State rule only if circumstantial evidence shows that the affected statement is as trustworthy as the statements that are made admissible by the hearsay exceptions created by Federal Rules of Evidence 803 and 804 or by comparable State rules.

United States v. Alexander, 331 F.3d 116, 121-123 (D.C. Cir. 2003) (upholding trial court's admission of defendant girlfriend's 911 call as an excited utterance because even though "the intervening call might suggest that [the....A statement falls within the hearsay exception created by Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) or a comparable State rule for excited utterances, only if the declarant (the maker of the statement) was under the stress of the startling event or condition when he or she made the statement that relates to that startling event or condition.