Hearsay is a statement that (i) is made other than at the trial or proceeding at which it is offered and (ii) is offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted by the maker of the statement, the declarant.

Camfield v. City of Oklahoma City, 248 F.3d 1214, 1232 (10th Cir. 2001) (upholding trial court's exclusion of witnesses' testimony about Sgt. High's seizure announcement of child pornography videos upon walking into a video rental store where the conduct was not a semi-automatic act and could not serve as...Habit is a regular response to a specific situation.

Smith v. United States, 161 U.S. 85, 88 (1896) ("that the deceased had the general reputation of being a quarrelsome and dangerous person was competent, especially if his character in this respect was known to the defendant").Evidence that would be prohibited character evidence if offered to show a person's conduct is not barred by the character evidence rule if it is offered to show some other matter such as another person's belief.

United States v. McLee, 436 F.3d 751, 759-760 (7th Cir. 2006) (upholding trial court'a admission of witness's testimony about the conspiracy because it completed the story on the "genesis" of the conspiracy and "nature" of the relationship between the accused and the witness).Other crimes, wrongs, or acts are admissible and do not violate the prohibition against the use of character to show conduct if such acts are admissible to show the context of an event at issue at trial or to tell the full story or an intelligible story of a series of events at issue at trial.