Opinion ID: 1179411
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Heading: transcript of fain's statement

Text: At trial, Officer Newton testified as to statements Fain made during a taped police interview. The trial court disallowed the introduction of the tapes and the 58 page transcript thereof. The State did not introduce the transcript, but Officer Newton simply related his recollection of part of the conversation. Fain requested that the entire transcript be admitted into evidence; he did not limit his request to those portions of the transcript which explained, qualified or were relevant to that part of the conversation regarding which Newton testified. Such limited, relevant portions would have been admissible under the then existing Idaho evidentiary practice, which practice is now articulated in Idaho Rule of Evidence 106: When a writing or recorded statement or part thereof is introduced by a party, an adverse party may require him at that time to introduce any other part or any other writing or recorded statement which ought in fairness to be considered contemporaneously with it. While we note that the State did not introduce a writing, the rationale of the above rule would seem to apply where, as here, the State introduces evidence of an oral communication which has been reduced to writing, and other portions of that conversation, also reduced to writing, ought in fairness to be considered contemporaneously with it. However, since Fain's counsel failed to tailor his request in any respect so as to move for the admission of only those other parts of his statement which might be relevant in the context of Officer Newton's testimony, the trial court committed no error in refusing to admit the full transcript of the taped interview or the tapes themselves.