298 Ga. App. 525 - Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “To introduce a writing under the business records exception to the hearsay rule, a witness must lay a foundation indicating that he or she is aware of the method of keeping the documents. It is not required that the witness made the records or kept them under his or her supervision or control. Instead, the witness must be able to testify that the record was made (1) in the regular course of business, and (2) at the time of the event or within a reasonable time of the event. The witness’s lack of personal knowledge regarding how the records were created does not render them inadmissible, but merely affects the weight given to the evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 303 Ga. App. 203 - McKinley v. State · Strobel v. State

2. “Any writing . . . made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event shall be admissible in evidence in proof of the act, transaction, occurrence, or event, if the trial judge shall find that it was made in the regular course of any business and that it was the regular course of such business to make the memorandum or record at the time of the act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Strobel v. State · 315 Ga. App. 1 - Forrester v. State