CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Writings
......Best Evidence Rule [Repealed]
.........Original Lost or Destroyed
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Copy is admissible if original lost or destroyed.

Loss or destruction of letter to prison inmate does not make copy introduced by DA inadmissible by best evidence rule.

No error to admit secondary evidence of item lost by police where no fraudulent intent & jury made well aware of "frailties" of secondary evidence.

Hearsay exceptions re writings: past recollection recorded.

Testimony admissible where original document lost.

Secondary evidence of contents of lost tape recording admissible under Evid. Code §351.