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pg 127 paragraph 4

>Manning objected to Exhibit 109 as hearsay. In ruling on authentication during trial, the judge

found that Exhibit 109 was not a business record that could be self

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. However, the trial judge ruled that Exhibit 109 was relevant and admissible if the prosecution

brought the custodian of records from San Francisco to Maryland to provide live testimony to

authenticate it on other Rule 901 grounds. As the witness was about to depart S

an Francisco for

Maryland, the defendant stipulated to the authenticity of Exhibit 109.

The Manning case illustrates several issues common to authentication of electronic machine

generated information. First, in today’s electronic information world, authen

tication witnesses often live

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https:// www.justice.gov/usao/page/file/1030666/download

pg 132 paragraph 1

A. Hearsay Contained Within Machine-Generated Electronic Information

Machine-

generated information is not hearsay because it is not a “statement” of a “person” under

Rule 801(a)

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In Example One above, the Windows registry for Susan Hall’s home computer contained

only machine

-generated data about the computer’s operations and users’ actions, such as when a thumb

drive was connected to the computer, when a user opened an internet

browser, or when the computer was

connected to a particular wireless network. That information is not hearsay. Similarly, in Example Three,

the record of the date, time, and GPS coordinates for pictures taken on Robert Jackson’s iPhone contained

no hearsay