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| | BeldarBlog: The CBS News documents, the "Best Evidence Rule," and other relevant legal evidentiary principles |
 | | Evidence that a document or data compilation, in any form, (A) is in such condition as to create no suspicion concerning its authenticity, (B) was in a place where it, if authentic, would likely be, and (C) has been in existence 20 years or more at the time it is offered. |
 | | A "duplicate" is a counterpart produced by the same impression as the original, or from the same matrix, or by means of photography, including enlargements and miniatures, or by mechanical or electronic re-recording, or by chemical reproduction, or by other equivalent techniques which accurately reproduces the original. |
 | | Rule 1004 tells us when, in general, copies are okay even without an original having first been produced for inspection and comparison against that copy: |
| www.beldar.org /beldarblog/2004/09/cbs_news_docume.html (4419 words) |
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