CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Computer-Generated Evidence
......Possible Objections
.........Best Evidence
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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Best evidence rule [Repealed].