The requirements of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility are satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.
Wis. Stat. § 909.01
General provision
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case State v. Kandutsch (2011)
Most recently applied in State v. George Steven Burch (June 2021)
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