GREGORY CHANDLER-ADMISSION OF INCOMPLETE RECORDS

Typically, the admission of business records requires that the
business records be complete.  However, there are cases that
address the admission of incomplete business records. One such
case is United States v. Foster, 711 F. 2d 871 (9th Cir. 1983).  Here, the appellate court held that a ledger listing drug transactions was properly admitted even though it was incomplete, had several pages missing, and contained entries made out of sequence, since the entries actually made were made regularly and at or near the time of events. 

GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law