{"data":{"id":"us-ky/kre-1004","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRE 1004","heading":"Admissibility of other evidence of contents","body":"The original is not required, and other evidence of the contents of a writing, recording, or\nphotograph is admissible if:\n(1) Originals lost or destroyed. All originals are lost or have been destroyed, unless the\nproponent lost or destroyed them in bad faith;\n(2) Original not obtainable. No original can be obtained by any available judicial\nprocess or procedure; or\n(3) Original in possession of opponent. At a time when an original was under the\ncontrol of the party against whom offered, that party was put o n notice, by the\npleadings or otherwise, that the contents would be a subject of proof at the hearing,\nand that party does not produce the original at the hearing.","path":["KENTUCKY RULES OF EVIDENCE ----- Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/92). Although denominated \"rules,\" the elements of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were enacted as statutes by the Kentucky General Assembly. See 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88; 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324. Originally codified as KRS Chapter 422A in 1990, the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes, effective July 1, 1992, pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34. By an order dated May 12, 1992, the Kentucky Supreme Court \"adopt[ed] so much of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence as enacted by HB 241 [1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324] as comes within the rule making power of the Court, pursuant to Ky. Const. sec. 116.\""],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=20420","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:11Z","sha256":"0da00341b854431165c16a30bb004b92f738bc513b03b12649d3bca9663e962f","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/kre-1003","next":"us-ky/kre-1005"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}