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title: O.C.G.A. § 24-10-1004. Admissibility of other evidence of contents of a writing, recording, or photograph.
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# O.C.G.A. § 24-10-1004. Admissibility of other evidence of contents of a writing, recording, or photograph.

The original shall not be required and other evidence of the contents of a writing, recording, or photograph shall be admissible if:

(1) All originals are lost or have been destroyed, unless the proponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith;

(2) No original can be obtained by any available judicial process or procedure;

(3) At a time when an original was under the control of the party against whom offered, that party was put on notice, by the pleadings or otherwise, that the contents would be a subject of proof at the hearing, and that party does not produce the original at the hearing; or

(4) The writing, recording, or photograph is not closely related to a controlling issue.

## History

Code 1981, § 24-10-1004, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

## Cross References

Recording lost or destroyed deeds, § 44-2-12.

Admissibility of other evidence of content, Fed. R. Evid. 1004.

## Law Reviews

For comment on Mitchell v. United States, 214 Ga. 473, 105 S.E.2d 337 (1958), see 21 Ga. B.J. 553 (1959).