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Friday, May 06, 2011
Courts - "Applying the Rules of Evidence Related to Authentication to Online Sources"
UCLA law prof. Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspirary has an interesting entry this morning that begins:
Evidence law has special rules that require someone who wants to introduce a document to first introduce “foundation” evidence that shows the document was indeed written by the person who supposedly wrote it; this is called “authentication.” Griffin v. State, decided by Maryland’s highest court on April 28, has an interesting discussion of how those rules play out with regard to online sources. The case itself involved the authentication of a MySpace Web page, but the discussion can apply to many other online sources as well.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 6, 2011 08:07 AM
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