New Haven Housing Court Judge Steven Ecker talks about how people in his courtroom often try to hand him their cellphones. Not to shoot a selfie or anything like that, but in an attempt to get a text message or other digital data introduced as evidence in their cases. When it comes to deciding what’s legitimate and what’s not, “I don’t even know if I’m doing it right,” Ecker says.
He might be a bit modest. If anyone knows how to authenticate electronic evidence, it’s Ecker. He’s one of eight judges and six lawyers who have been updating the Connecticut Code of Evidence over the past nine months, with a special focus on electronic and computer evidence. The initiative is the result of the 2014 legislature passing a law authorizing the evidence code to now be issued directly as rules of the Supreme Court, without either the legislative or judicial branch giving up any constitutional rulemaking power.
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