Sublet v. State
Annotate this CaseThese three cases, consolidated for the purposes of this opinion, involved the same legal issues arising out of the Court of Appeals’ opinion in Griffin v. State, in which the Court addressed the admissibility of a screenshot of a MySpace page. This appeal addressed Griffin’s application to the authentication of screenshots of messages allegedly sent through social networking websites. In the three cases, the messages were sent via a Facebook timeline, on Twitter through direct messages and public tweets, and through Facebook messages. The Court of Appeals held that, “in order to authenticate evidence derived from a social networking website, the trial judge must determine that there is proof from which a reasonable juror could find that the evidence is what the proponent claims it to be.” Accordingly, the Court held that, in each of the cases, the trial court did not err in (1) excluding the admission of the four pages of the Facebook conversation; (2) admitting the “direct messages” and “tweets” in evidence; and (3) admitting the Facebook messages authored by the defendant.
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