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· 11/21/1985

People v. Holowko

Citations

  • 486 N.E.2d 877
  • 109 Ill. 2d 187
  • 93 Ill. Dec. 344
  • 1985 Ill. LEXIS 313

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding \that the printout of results of computerized telephone tracing equipment is not hearsay evidence\ but rather \a self-generated record of its operations\
  • explaining that a printout of data is “merely the tangible result of the computer’s internal operations”
  • concluding “that the printout of results of computerized telephone tracing equipment is not hearsay evidence” but rather “ ‘a self-generated record of its operations, much like a seismograph [or] ... a flight recorder .... ’ ”
  • concluding computer-generated records of telephone traces are not hearsay because the “evidence is generated instantaneously *** without the assistance, observations, or reports from or by a human declarant”
  • records produced by computerized telephone-call tracing equipment without manual or human intervention are not hearsay evidence
  • records produced by computerized telephone-call tracing equipment without manual or human intervention are not hearsay evidence

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Judges: Goldenhersh

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