Article X. Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs
Rule Text
The court determines whether the proponent has fulfilled the factual conditions for admitting other evidence of the content of a writing, recording, or photograph under Rule 1004 or 1005.
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Committee Notes
Maine Restyling Note [November 2014]
Maine Rule 1008 and Federal Rule 1008 are substantively identical, and therefore the Advisory Committee recommends adoption of the language of the restyled Federal Rule.
Advisers’ Note to former M.R. Evid. 1008
(February 2, 1976)
The ultimate decision in these matters of conditional relevancy is of course for the jury. State v. Chaplin, 286 A.2d 325 (Me. 1972).
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