Presentation of Webpages at Trial

“There are a lot of ways to present a webpage at trial other than presenting a printed document,” offers Hutchins. “As juries become more sophisticated and the use of electronic devices proliferates in our culture, a jury wants to experience evidence in the ways it would experience it in the real world. The best way to present a webpage at trial is to present it electronically—provided the content of the webpage you are offering has not changed from the time the witness first encountered it to the time of trial. Assuming that is the case, the proponent would go through the same authenticating process,” says Hutchins.

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