If the declarant is unavailable, Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(1) or a comparable State rule creates a hearsay exception for testimony given as a witness at another hearing of the same or a different proceeding, or in a deposition taken in compliance with law in the course of the same or another proceeding, if the party against whom the testimony is now offered, or, in a civil action or proceeding, a predecessor in interest, had an opportunity and similar motive to develop the testimony by direct, cross, or redirect examination.

United States v. Rommy, 506 F.3d 108, 139-140 (2d Cir. 2007) (upholding trial court's admission of the statement of a Dutch police, a colleague of the detective who testified about the transcript which identified....The Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause places no limits on the admission at trial of nonhearsay statements made prior to or outside of trial.

United States v. Hutcher, 662 F.2d 1083, 1087 (2d Cir. 1980) (approving John Henry Wigmore's thesis that an overruled objection does not "avail" the general objector on appeal; objection "I will object to that" to cross-examination and summation by prosecutor held insufficient under Federal Rule of...If a trial court overrules an objection to evidence, an appellate court will review the trial court's ruling only if the opponent made a specific objection at trial; if the opponent of the evidence made a general objection and the trial court overruled the objection, it will be said that the opponent waived or forfeited its claim of error by making a general objection.

United States v. Hill, 40 F.3d 164, 169 (7th Cir. 1994) (upholding trial court's exclusion of 'test letters' evidence which was allegedly probative of accused's character trait for law-abidingness because the proper method of proof would have been by reputation or opinion testimony).When an exception to the character evidence prohibition makes evidence of a criminal defedant's character admissible, the testimony of a witness on direct examination about the defendant's character must take the form of reputation or opinion and it cannot consist of specific instances of the defendant's conduct.