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· 10/9/1991

United States v. Drabeck

Citations

  • 946 F.2d 630
  • 1991 WL 200799

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that testimony that showed how the tape was put in the camera, how the camera was activated, the removal of the tape immediately after the offense, the chain of custody, and how the film was developed was sufficient to support the trial court’s decision to admit the evidence
  • prison discipline or segregation imposed in an arbitrary or capricious manner may support civil rights violation
  • film of bank robbery made by camera activated after bank personnel were locked in vault
  • automatic camera activated after bank personnel were locked in the vault — contact prints made from the film of the robbery were admissible upon sufficient authentication
  • videotape was admissible after a government witness talked about operation of camera even though no witness actually verified the transactions observed within the tape
  • other evidence corroborated the authenticity of notebooks

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alarcon, Beezer, Browning, Brunetti, Canby, Farris, Fernandez, Fletcher, Hall, Hug, Kozinski, Leavy, Nelson, Noonan, Norris, Poole, Pregerson, Reinhardt, Rymer, Scannlain, Schroeder, Tang, Thompson, Trott, Wallace, Wiggins

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