Defriez v. Coffin

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• holding that a videotape should have been admitted into evidence instead of a transcription because the tape was “the original evidence” of the witness’s statement.
• videotape admissible as “original evidence” so as “to permit the jurors to determine firsthand from the videotape the demeanor of [a conspirator] and allow the jury to test his credibility while making the confession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).