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REPORTED IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND No. 1262 September Term, 1999

STATE OF MARYLAND

v.

SHAWN PATRICK BROWN

Moylan, Kenney, Getty, James S. (Ret., Specially Assigned), JJ.

OPINION BY MOYLAN, J.

Filed: December 29, 1999

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Perpetuities, the Best Evidence Rule is a treasured legal relic. As a practical matter, however, it is rapidly sinking into deeper and deeper obsolescence, as the error-fraught human activity which it was designed to circumscribe is being almost totally displaced by advancing technology. The single issue before us on this appeal

by the State, pursuant to Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc.

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