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Job: 529RUL

Unit: U3EV

Pagination Table: RULES1

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RULES OF EVIDENCE

form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses,
made at or near the time by, or from information trans-
mitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course
of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was
the regular practice of that business activity to make
the memorandum, report, record or data compilation, all
as shown by the testimony of the custodian or other
qualiﬁed witness, or by certiﬁcation that complies with
Rule 902(11), Rule 902(12), or a statute permitting certi-
ﬁcation, unless the source of information or the method
or circumstances of preparation indicate lack of trust-
worthiness. The term “business” as used in this para-
graph includes business, institution, association, profes-
sion, occupation, and calling of every kind, whether or
not conducted for proﬁt.
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Rule 902. Self-authentication.

Extrinsic evidence of authenticity as a condition precedent
to admissibility is not required with respect to the following:
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(11) Certi ﬁed domestic records of regularly con-
ducted activity.—The original or a duplicate of a domes-
tic record of regularly conducted activity that would be
admissible under Rule 803(6) if accompanied by a writ-
ten declaration of its custodian or other qualiﬁed person,
in a manner complying with any Act of Congress or rule
prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory
authority, certifying that the record—

(A) was made at or near the time of the occur-
rence of the matters set forth by, or from informa-
tion transmitted by, a person with knowledge of
those matters;

(B) was kept in the course of the regularly con-

ducted activity; and

(C) was made by the regularly conducted activity

as a regular practice.