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The federal government unsuccessfully argued that the chats “were ‘self-authenticating’ ” as business records under Federal Rule of Evidence 902(11).
The chats qualified based on “a certificate from Facebook’s records custodian,” the government argued.
But the “business records exception” didn’t apply here because Facebook didn’t “purport to verify or rely on the substantive contents of the communications in the course of its business.”
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