CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
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Writings
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Authentication
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Manner of Authentication
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Altered documents may be authenticated.
Writing admissible if intelligible enough to be relevant; it need not be completely intelligible.
Proponent has burden of showing document's authenticity, including absence of any material alteration. If burden met, court required to admit.