CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Computer-Generated Evidence
......Possible Objections
.........Best Evidence
8 Cards On This Topic:
  • Best evidence exception: copies of business records admissible.
  • Original required, absent exception.
  • Printout of computer data deemed an original.
  • Chart based upon general ledger computer printout properly admitted as summary.
  • Computer summary of voluminous documents properly admitted; underlying documents not offered into evidence, but available for inspection.
  • Computer printout containing data stored on computer diskettes qualify as duplicate records.
  • Computer printout of number Lottery winners does not violate best evidence rule, because computer printout is considered an original.
  • Best evidence rule [Repealed].