2016 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 19 - EVIDENCE
Chapter 19 - South Dakota Rules of Evidence
§ 19-19-1004 Admissibility of other evidence of content.
19-19-1004. Admissibility of other evidence of content. An original is not required and other evidence of the content of a writing, recording, or photograph is admissible if:
(a) All the originals are lost or destroyed, and not by the proponent acting in bad faith;
(b) An original cannot be obtained by any available judicial process;
(c) The party against whom the original would be offered had control of the original; was at that time put on notice, by pleadings or otherwise, that the original would be a subject of proof at the trial or hearing; and fails to produce it at the trial or hearing; or
(d) The writing, recording, or photograph is not closely related to a controlling issue.
Source: SL 1979, ch 358 (Supreme Court Rule 78-2, Rule 1004); SDCL ยง 19-18-4; SL 2016, ch 239 (Supreme Court Rule 15-68), eff. Jan. 1, 2016.
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