Lyford v. North Pacific Coast Railroad

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• holding that text messages sent by the defendant were properly authenticated when an investigating officer testified that photos he took of the phone's screen were a fair and accurate representation of the messages that appeared on the phone to which the messages were sent
• affirming trial court’s admission of photographs of text messages from defendant’s phone taken by officer
• no unfair prejudice from video of sexual assault victim sobbing as he described sexual encounter with defendant, because video was “relevant as evidence of the crimes charged”
• “We review the trial court’s decision to admit evidence for an abuse of discretion.” (punctuation omitted)
• photos of text messages sent by the defendant were properly authenticated when an investigating officer testified that photos he took of the phone’s screen were a fair and accurate representation of the messages that appeared on the phone to which the messages were sent

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