Court of Appeals Upholds Admissibility of Social Media Evidence Based on Circumstantial Evidence of Authenticity

Published for NC Criminal Law on March 07, 2016.

The court of appeals recently decided State v. Ford, a case about the authentication of social media evidence. This is the first North Carolina appellate case to give careful consideration to the issue, and the opinion sets a relatively low bar for authentication. Because this type of evidence is increasingly prevalent, the case is an ... Read more

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