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Text-message screenshots offered without authentication
Custody trial. Petitioner's attorney moves to admit screenshots without first establishing where they came from.
Hearing transcript
- 01ATTORNEY:Your Honor, I move to admit Petitioner's Exhibit 5, screenshots of text messages from the respondent.
Question
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