Seventh Circuit: Thomas Lovelace v. Todd McKenna

Court did not abuse its discretion in barring physician's record of statement that prison inmate asserted that the guards had beaten him, as it address the truth of the matter asserted, rather than the reason that treatment had been sought.

Witness' statement that he feared retribution from guards permissibly barred as more prejudicial than probative.

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