Birdo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““The writing which is required to be produced is a writing whose contents are sought to be introduced in evidence as being legally material. It may happen that this significant writing is itself a copy or reproduction of some other document, but that circumstance makes no difference. Thus if A wrote a letter, and sent instead of the first impression, the carbon copy, the latter would of course be the ‘original’ in this sense if the terms of the communicated message became material. (Emphasis supplied.)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morgan v. State