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Re: One Question
Posted by:
Gerald Hurst (IP Logged)
Date: February 21, 2007 01:06PM
You are disagreeing not with what Mr. Lentini wrote but what you think you read.
BTW, I think you should also reread the court documents which were used to support your arguments.
When I (and presumably others) refer to field notes we are rarely concerned with whether they are originals or accurate facsimiles. In one case cited, the judge ruled that original field note production was not necessary because he assumed the other side had been furnished with computer copies. Legible scanned images are, in most cases, perfectly acceptable substitutions for the original documents. Reports, in most cases, are not.
I think a lot of smoke has been unintentionally introduced into this discussion by failing to distinguish between facsimiles and reports.