Altered photographs? new evidentiary considerations.
Part of a special section on demonstrative evidence. The use of photographic enhancement computer programs to alter photographs for use in court is discussed. Computer photographic imaging represents just one of the numerous changes that will require new evidentiary consideration by trial lawyers....
| Published in: | Trial: The National Legal Newsmagazine Vol. 30; p. 66 |
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American Association for Justice (AJJ)
September 1994
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