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United States v. Rothenberg

United States District Court, Northern District of California
Nov 1, 2022
20-cr-00266-JST-1 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 1, 2022)

Opinion

20-cr-00266-JST-1

11-01-2022

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL BRENT ROTHENBERG, Defendant.


ORDER RE ADMISSIBILITY OF EMAIL EVIDENCE

JON S. TIGAR, United States District Judge.

Defendant's hearsay objections to Exhibits 1, 17, and 54-71 are overruled. The statements contained in these emails largely either consist of statements by Mr. Rothenberg or are not offered for the truth of the matter asserted. In addition, these emails qualify as business records under the test set forth in Mays v. United Ass'n Loc. 290 Apprenticeship & Journeymen Training Tr. Fund, 407 F.Supp.3d 1121, 1142 (D. Or. 2019) (holding that “an email is an admissible business record only if: (1) it was sent or received contemporaneously with the event(s) described in the email; (2) it was sent by someone with knowledge of the event(s) documented in the email; (3) it was sent or received in the course of a regular business activity; (4) it is ‘the producing [party's] regular practice to send or receive emails that record the type of event(s) documented in the email[;]' and (5) a custodian or qualified witness attests that these conditions have been fulfilled.”).

IT IS SO ORDERED.


Summaries of

United States v. Rothenberg

United States District Court, Northern District of California
Nov 1, 2022
20-cr-00266-JST-1 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 1, 2022)
Case details for

United States v. Rothenberg

Case Details

Full title:UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL BRENT ROTHENBERG…

Court:United States District Court, Northern District of California

Date published: Nov 1, 2022

Citations

20-cr-00266-JST-1 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 1, 2022)