Editor’s Note: Identifying key digital evidence is only half the battle—ensuring that evidence is admissible in court is what ultimately matters. This article examines the legal standards that govern ...

Social media is ubiquitous in our cyber-connected world. For many, the first thing a person does when they wake up, and the last thing that person does when they go to bed is read, post, or otherwise ...

Recognizing the legal system's growing vulnerability to manipulated digital content, the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules has advanced a groundbreaking proposal: a new ...

The New Mexico Supreme Court agreed with the legal framework used by the intermediate appeals court to authenticate screenshots of a Facebook Messenger conversation, but not its determination that the ...

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OCEAN CITY — Prosecutors on Friday discussed how lawyers can authenticate social media and other digital evidence for use at trial, particularly given how the legal standard for authentication has ...

The Maryland Supreme Court has agreed to hear a criminal case that will determine whether the Maryland Appellate Court lowered the requirements for authentication of video evidence when the court ...

Admissibility of Non-US Evidence at Trial in the US An examination of issues related to the admissibility of evidence obtained in a foreign country for use at trial in the US, including admission ...

The committee responsible for revising and updating federal evidentiary rules can’t agree on whether to proceed with ...

Jonathan D. Uslaner and Matthew Goldstein of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP examine the proposed new Federal Rule of Evidence 707, which addresses the admissibility of machine-generated ...