A statement and the purpose for which it is offered

A fictional evidence exercise concerns a message received by a manager before an incident. One party offers the message to prove that the underlying allegation described in it was true. Another offers it only to show that the manager had notice of a reported concern before acting. The exercise supplies no final ruling, witness foundation, exception or complete evidentiary code. A trainee says the message has exactly the same admissibility analysis regardless of its purpose. Students must identify the different propositions the message might support and the additional governing-rule questions that remain. The case does not assume that every notice use is automatically admissible or that every out-of-court statement must always be excluded. It asks for purpose-sensitive analysis rather than a universal hearsay slogan.