Business Records Do Not Need to Speak Through The Microphone
Do you need to introduce business records—bank statements, company business journals, diary of a call-girl with her clients’ names and charges, records of the daily weight-checks for the tiger cubs in Dream World, list of tardies that the child’s school keeps? Do you wake up in the middle of the night wondering whether to subpoena the custodian of—as Rule 803(6) puts it— memorandum, report, record, or data compilation kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity of a business, institution, association, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind, whether or not conducted for profit? Good news: the North Carolina Court…