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.

See Crossley v. Lieberman, 868 F.2d 566, 568 (3d Cir. 1989) (holding, in plaintiff mortgagor's action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act against defendant attorney, that the trial court properly admitted the....Federal Rule of Evidence 902(4) provides that a document is sufficiently authenticated to be admissible if the document appears to be a certified copy of a public record, provided the document appears to be certified as correct by the custodian or by another person who is authorized to make the certification.

United States v. Shearer, 379 F.3d 453, 456 (7th Cir. 2004) (upholding trial court's admission of witnesses' testimony about accused's prior bad acts of selling display fireworks where such evidence was offered to prove accused's "intent to deal by demonstrating that [accused] engaged in...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. Larson, 112 F.3d 600, 605 (2d Cir. 1997) (upholding trial court's admission of witness's testimony about accused's prior criminal sexual conduct with another minor because it was relevant as there was similarity of the events between the prior criminal sexual conduct and the offense...Federal Rule of Evidence 414 and comparable rules in a few States create an exception to the prohibition against "circumstantial" use of character -- the prohibition against the use of character to show conduct -- by providing that in a criminal trial for child molestation or child sexual abuse, evidence of the defendant's commission of another offense or offenses of child molestation or child sexual abuse is relevant and admissible.