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1. THE DIGITAL AGE • Admissibility of digital evidence: The 2003 Louisiana Legislature passed Act 1135 amending the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Evidence Article 1001 (3) to provide that digital evidence from palm pilots, the blackberry, e-mail, and related evidence is to be treated as original for evidentiary…

I. Introduction There is no field of governmental activity concerning which the people are as poorly informed as the field occupied by the judiciary. … It is highly inconsistent to complain of the ignorance and apathy of voters and then to ‘close the windows of information through which they might…