· 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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