Tacit admissions as well as express admissions are exempt from the prohibition against hearsay evidence.

United States v. Jimenez Lopez, 873 F.2d 769, 772 (5th Cir. 1989) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of defendant's prior conviction of illegal entry into the United States by a magistrate's court because the....Federal Rule of Evidence 902(1) and comparable State rules provide that a document bearing the seal of a domestic governmental body and a signature purporting to be an attestation or execution is sufficiently authenticated to be admissible. Such a document is "self-authenticating."

Johnson v. Norris, 537 F.3d 840, 845-847 (8th Cir. 2008) (habeas corpus review of murder conviction and death sentence; trial court rejected criminal defendant's attempt to elicit and offer evidence protected by a state's psychotherapist-patient privilege; defendant argued "that his rights under the...Although sparse United States Supreme Court dicta and precedent suggest that nonconstitutional privilege rules may have to yield to a criminal defendant's federal constitutional rights, except for the specific and rare circumstances in which the Court has said or suggested that must happen, it is unknown when such privilege rules must yield to a criminal defendant's constitutional rights such as the right to due process and the right to present a defense.

United States v. Maliszewski, 161 F.3d 992, 1009 (6th Cir. 1998) (upholding trial court's admission of the testimony of witness Mireles [about defendant's repeated statements made by her dead husband] as a statement against....Federal Rule of Evidence of Evidence 804(b)(3) or a comparable State rule creates a hearsay exception for a statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true. A statement tending to expose the declarant to criminal liability and offered to exculpate the accused is not admissible unless corroborating circumstances clearly indicate the trustworthiness of the statement.