Please help! Evidence law admissibility question.

How would admissibility of the following be determined?

The defendant is charged with burglary, having been accused of breaking into a cafe. The cafe was locked but its lock was cut open.

'The prosecution seek to adduce a text message that the defendant sent to his friend. In the text, the defendant had written 'I need your bolt cutters. Are you free tonight?'


At first I thought this would come under hearsay, but hearsay does not concern something said by the defendant, as he/she can be cross-examined in court?

So for me, I would read the chapter on this subject in your text book. Then perhaps work through one or two of the examples given and then finally I would be in a position to answer the question you have posed.

Good luck!

Hi,
Thanks for your reply to this.
I have read through the relevant chapters of several textbooks (using Perlego for the additional ones), and I still can't get my head around whether something said by the defendant would constitute hearsay. I understand the effect of cases like Kearley, but in that case and those similar to it, the messages were received by the defendant, but not spoken by the defendant himself.