VIII. The Original Note Was Not Produced
The State claims that a text at 11:00 p.m. instructed Twiggs to look underneath a keyboard. Twiggs said he found a note, photographed it and returned it to the desk. He did not produce the original note. The State presented the photograph found on Twiggs’s phone. Source: rev.com Agent Davis called it a handwritten note “from Tyler to Lance.”
- handwriting analysis;
- fingerprints;
- DNA;
- paper examination;
- ink dating;
- an eyewitness to its creation;
- or recovery of the original.
He answered that Twiggs told investigators about it and identified it. Source: rev.com That is not independent authentication. It is Twiggs authenticating evidence supplied by Twiggs.
- handwriting comparison;
- latent-print examination;
- DNA testing;
- ink examination;
- paper-source comparison;
- indentation analysis;
- or verification of physical possession.
The Court received a digital image. It did not receive the original alleged document.
a photograph on Twiggs’s device, of a note Twiggs said he found, attributed to Mr. Robinson because Twiggs said it was his. That is a closed evidentiary circle.