Kenneth Vercammen (732) 572-0500

2053 Woodbridge Ave. Edison, NJ 08817

Ken is a NJ trial attorney who has published 130 articles in national and New Jersey publications on litigation topics. He was awarded the NJ State Bar Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year. He lectures for the Bar and handles litigation matters. He is Past Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Committee, GP on Personal Injury and lectured at the ABA Annual Meeting attended by 10,000 attorneys and professionals.

New clients email us evenings and weekends go to www.njlaws.com/ContactKenV.htm

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Evidence Rule 1004

Evidence Rule 1004
Rule 1004. Admissibility of Other Evidence of Contents
The original is not required and other evidence of the contents of a writing or photograph is admissible if:

(a)Originals lost or destroyed.--All originals are lost or have been destroyed, unless the proponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith; or

(b)Original not obtainable.--No original can be obtained by any available judicial process or procedure or by other available means; or

(c)Original in possession of opponent.--At a time when an original was under the control of the party against whom offered, that party was put on notice by the pleadings or otherwise that the contents would be a subject of proof at the hearing, and that party does not produce the original at the hearing; or

(d)Collateral matters.--The writing or photograph is not closely related to a controlling issue and it would not be expedient to require its production.


HISTORY:Adopted September 15, 1992 to be effective July 1, 1993.

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