McDonald v. State, Department of Revenue & Taxation

THOMAS, Justice.

The threshold question presented in this case is whether a driver’s record, maintained in an electronic database, then reproduced on paper in the form of an abstract and certified by the custodian as such, is admissible in an administrative proceeding to revoke a driver’s license as a record kept in the usual course of business for purposes of the business records exception to the hearsay rule, or as a public record for purposes of the public records exception to the hearsay rule. A related and tandem question is the justification for installing a record from another…