CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Writings
......Best Evidence Rule [Repealed]

• Basic Rules & Definitions
• Burden to Raise Issue
• Compilation of Voluminous Documents
• Copy Made as Business Record
• Expediency - Not on Controlling Issue
• Genuineness of Copy Not at Issue
• Original an Official Record
• Original Lost or Destroyed
• Original Not in Control of Proponent
• Original Previously Produced
• Original With Opponent
• Secondary Evidence/No Personal Knowledge
• Specific Applications