{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-24-10-1004","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 24-10-1004","heading":"Admissibility of other evidence of contents of a writing, recording, or photograph.","body":"The original shall not be required and other evidence of the contents of a writing, recording, or photograph shall be admissible if:\n(1) All originals are lost or have been destroyed, unless the proponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith;\n(2) No original can be obtained by any available judicial process or procedure;\n(3) At a time when an original was under the control of the party against whom offered, that party was put on notice, by the pleadings or otherwise, that the contents would be a subject of proof at the hearing, and that party does not produce the original at the hearing; or\n(4) The writing, recording, or photograph is not closely related to a controlling issue.","path":["TITLE 24 EvidenceCHAPTER 99.","CHAPTER 10 Best Evidence Rule"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.24.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"5e813e0f3d5c70bdabc78a813dbec042870652d333820d4a325dc80dfb0de8c9","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-24-10-1003","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-24-10-1005"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}