8Circuit.png In a cocaine prosecution, the number inscribed in a safe in which drugs were discovered was not a “writing” under the FRE 1002 Best Evidence Rule. Rather, the inscription on the safe was treated as a chattel in that it was simple, the chance of fraud small, and testimony about it only a small part of the evidence against the defendant, in United States v. Buchanan, __ F.3d __ , (8th Cir. May 4, 2010) (No. 09-2569) Read more

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FRE 1002 Best Evidence Rule Not Applied To Number Inscribed In Cocaine Defendant's Safe