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Re: Keeping Your Notes
Posted by:
arsonteach (IP Logged)
Date: February 19, 2007 06:58PM
I usually sit back and just watch, However I will share this with everyone. I have always taught that you should consistantly keep or destroy your notes. I now teach it may be iun your best interest to keep your notes.The reason is because if your case is appealed to Federal court.
if you carefully read Rule 26 in the Federal Rules of Evidence it is much like Daubert it deals with experts and non-experts. It addresses any notes you have generated including electronically stored or other, it discusses the identifying of your sketches/diagrams and photographs/images as exhibits. I realize it is a lengthy document almost 626 pages if I recall correctly but that is the overall important information I got from it. I hope this will help everyone because I have found no supporting State statutes that say you shall preserve your notes.
Steve Riggs