An electronically preserved document has the same legal significance and admissibility as if the document had been maintained in hard-copy form. If a party opposes admission of the document on the grounds that the document has been materially altered, the proponent of the document must disprove the allegation by a preponderance of the evidence.
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.44
ADMISSIBILITY OF ELECTRONICALLY PRESERVED DOCUMENT
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 312 (S.B. 611), Sec. 5, eff
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