[Red Steel]

The fact that the judge admitted digital copies of the Birth Certificates doesn't accept them as valid certificates but only proves copies were admitted. The judge might view them as valid; he might view them as fake depending on the factual record provided by the petitioners. But on this kind of appeal, at least in most jurisdictions, zero doesn't get to put in additional evidence.

Valid? The judge would be lacking sense to accept or view these Internet pictures of dubious origins as 'true copies' and certianly not certified documents as true from any issuing authority.

[David]

Valid? The judge would be lacking sense to accept or view these Internet pictures of dubious origins as 'true copies' and certianly not certified documents as true from any issuing authority.

I didn't say I thought he would but you and I have not really seen the record in this proceeding so we don't know what else there is. Or, I see, you are even addressing my proposition of the basis on which he admitted them--well I guess as to that we don't know.

They are printouts of digitally generated fakes--I don't suppose I know what words he might have used. But he let them in.

Point is that they are in the record but that doesn't demonstrate, absent supporting evidence, that they prove anything other than that someone created them.