California Evidence Code

§ 1522

EVID § 1522 Effective Jan 1, 1999Div. 11 · Ch. 2 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)In addition to the grounds for exclusion authorized by Section 1521, in a criminal action the court shall exclude secondary evidence of the content of a writing if the court determines that the original is in the proponent’s possession, custody, or control, and the proponent has not made the original reasonably available for inspection at or before trial. This section does not apply to any of the following:

(1)A duplicate as defined in Section 260.

(2)A writing that is not closely related to the controlling issues in the action.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 100, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.