CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Computer-Generated Evidence
......Business Records
.........Foundation Issues
............Reliability of Input Data
6 Cards On This Topic:

Data entries on magnetic computer tapes are writings made contemporaneously with Lotto transactions and qualify as business records, regardless whether data printout made later than material was input.

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

Hearsay evidence from police reports put into police log, then into computer in normal course of business, is not nonhearsay when retrieved from computer; then untrustworthy.

Reliance upon data by disinterested business is persuasive evidence of its reliability.

Proof that computer records altered did not make them untrustworthy when admitted for purpose of proving D altered them.

Testimony from computer-generated records improperly admitted where witness unable to lay foundation.