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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail by mseebach on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:05PM (#16833001)
The underlying mechanism there is generally that the other party doesn't contest that the printout is in fact of a picture from their phone, or that the screenshot from Reddit is in fact of something they wrote.

I'm not a trial lawyer, but I suspect that it's not a great defence strategy to deny basic matters of fact.

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Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail by landryraccoon on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:31PM (#16833218)
My understanding is that judges will lean towards admitting the evidence, and if the lawyers want to bring forth experts or witnesses to undermine the evidence they are welcome to. So a screenshot of a conversation might be admitted, and the opposing lawyer would have to argue or bring forth witnesses arguing that the screenshot was faked.
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