Commonwealth v. Thissell

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• concluding that GPS records were business records and admissible in probation revocation hearing, despite testifying witness claiming that he was “not an expert”
• explaining that, Iblecause computer-generated records, by definition, do not contain a statement from a person, they do not necessarily implicate hearsay concerne
• \GPS technology . . . is a widely used and acknowledged as a reliable relator of time and location data.\
• “If the evidence is admissible under standard evidentiary rules, it is presumptively reliable.”
• “It appears to us that the GPS documents consisting of maps and logs are not hearsay. Hearsay requires a statement, i.e., an oral or written assertion or . . . nonverbal conduct of a person, if it is intended by the party as an assertion.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)

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