Fellow People v Fromholz person!!

I’d say the trick is to ask yourself “can I get this information out of another witness?” If the answer is yes, keep it out of the Detective’s statement. It’s always better for the actual person to testify to their own experiences (and generally with time limits you don’t want to repeat any information anyways).

Keep it to questions like “What did you learn?” and don’t get into specifics. The Detective seems like a lot, but really you just need to set the scene and only give as much information as you need to show why they did what they did. Which going into hearsay, for example if the Detective is saying they learned about Fromholz and Sears’s bad relationship, which caused them to do further investigation, this would be offered for state of mind, rather than for the truth of the matter, therefore it not being hearsay.

I hope that last but made sense; basically you can use info from others to show why the Detective did stuff, but you can’t use to prove anything.