Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions

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1. “The first and most obvious method for authentication, we said, would be to ask the purported creator if she indeed created the profile and also if she added the posting in question. The second approach we discussed was to search the computer of the person who allegedly created the profile and posting and examine the computer’s internet history and hard drive to determine whether that computer was used to originate the social networking profile and posting in question. • The third of the non-exhaustive means of authentication we suggested was to obtain information directly from the social networking website, which would link together the profile and the entry to the person, or persons, who had created them.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 192 So. 3d 836 - State v. Smith · 448 N.J. Super. 78 - State of New Jersey v. Terri Hannah

2. “(a) General Provision. The requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims. (b) Illustrations”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 136 So. 3d 424 - Smith v. State · Sublet, Harris & Monge-Martinez v. State

3. “to obtain information ' directly from the social networking website that links the establishment of the profile to the person. who allegedly ereated it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Glover · 448 N.J. Super. 78 - State of New Jersey v. Terri Hannah