United States Fifth Circuit

Even if a weekly ledger of drug sales, destroyed at the end of each week, is a business record for purposes of the hearsay exception, oral testimony regarding the contents of the ledger does not suffice as secondary evidence of a business record under F. R. Evid 1004.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2001
• Published 08/16/2001

Judges

• BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, DeMOSS and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Phillip A. Linder Dallas, TX, F. Clinton Broden (argued), Broden & Mickelsen, Dallas, TX, for Shenard Tyvon Wells., Franklyn Ray Mickelsen, Jr. (argued), Broden & Mickelsen, Dallas, TX, for Rodney W. Wells., James E. Polk, II (argued), Dallas, TX, for Loletta Denise Scott.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marc Ian Osborne (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.