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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 10. BEST EVIDENCE RULE

24-10-1003. Admissibility of duplicates.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. A duplicate shall be admissible to the same extent as an original unless:

  2. (1)

    A genuine question is raised as to the authenticity of the original; or#

  3. (2)

    A circumstance exists where it would be unfair to admit the duplicate in lieu of the original.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 24-10-1003, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Primary evidentiary value of photostatic copies of records produced from microfilm and print-out copies of computer records, § 50-18-96. Admissibility of duplicates, Fed. R. Evid. 1003.

Law reviews

For article, “The Admissibility of Computer-Generated Evidence in Georgia,” see 18 Ga. St. B.J. 137 (1982). For annual survey on evidence law, see 66 Mercer L. Rev. 81 (2014).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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