Sublet, Harris & Monge-Martinez v. State

The rapid rise of social networking websites, 1 themselves a branch of social media, 2 once again gives us cause to explore the authentication of documents related to this genre, under Maryland Rule 5-901, which provides that the “requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims”, in three cases, Sublet v. State, Harris v. State and Monge-Martinez v. State, consolidated for the purposes of this opinion. All three cases involve the same…