There is a hearsay exception for government records of births, fetal deaths, deaths, or marriages if such records are based on legally-required reports made to a public office.

United States v. Queen, 132 F.3d 991, 996 (4th Cir. 1997) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of accused's prior acts of witness tampering because it was relevant to prove intent as an essential element of the charged offenses).Evidence of a criminal or wrongful act apart from the act that at issue at trial Is not barred by the prohibition against circumstantial use of character if intent, knowledge, mistake, or accident is a legally-material factual issue, the opposing party suggests the non-existence of knowledge or urges mistake or accident as a defense, and evidence of another crime, wrong, or act is offered to prove the knowledge or the absence of mistake or accident by a criminal defendant or other person.

United States v. Stover, 565 F.2d 1010, 1013 (8th Cir. 1977) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of accused's escape from a Minnesota federal penitentiary because such "evidence was competent to show that [accused] was in the vicinity where the car was stolen and that he had both...Another act, wrong, or crime is not barred by the character evidence rule if it is offered to show ability or opportunity or lack of ability or opportunity to commit a crime or other act, or to show person's presence or absence at scene of crime or elsewhere.

Fed. R. Evid. 803(1) ("A statement describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition, or immediately thereafter.").Federal Rule of Evidence 803(1) and comparable State rules create a hearsay exception for a statement setting forth the declarant's perception of an event or condition at the time the declarant makes the statement or immediately thereafter.