CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Computer-Generated Evidence
......Possible Objections
.........Authentication-Trustworthiness
............Authentication/Foundation
5 Cards On This Topic:

Private firm operating Lottery's on-line system provided proper foundation for admission of computer printouts attached to former auditor's declaration.

Computerized data retrieval properly admitted even though custodian unfamiliar with software or hardware; custodian's qualifications discussed.

Data entries on magnetic computer tapes are writings made contemporaneously with Lotto transactions and qualify as business records.

Foundational issues associated with business records; authentication/trustworthiness.

Possible self-authentication of some computer-generated records.