Well that's not true. An image pulled off the internet was submitted, but to the best of my knowledge, no one has offered an actual certified copy from Hawaii.
Presuming an actual certified copy looks like the images on the internet, they aren't actually certified. They are certified to not necessarily be genuine, which makes them pretty useless, doesn't it?
I can just see a trial in which a witness answered a question. "Well maybe he did and maybe he didn't."
*THAT* would be the equivalent of what those "birth certificates" say.
Any of the 11 judges/justices who received copies could reject the copy as insufficient evidence.
None of us has seen the hard copies that the judges or justices received in exhibits. All we’ve seen is scanned images that were then jdownloaded to web sites.
Federal Rule of Evidence 1005:
The proponent may use a copy to prove the content of an official record — or of a document that was recorded or filed in a public office as authorized by law — if these conditions are met: the record or document is otherwise admissible; and the copy is certified as correct in accordance with Rule 902(4) or is testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If no such copy can be obtained by reasonable diligence, then the proponent may use other evidence to prove the content.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_1005
The copies of the long form birth certificates that were entered into evidence by U.S. District Court Judge Wingate in Mississippi and by the Alabama Supreme Court included Certified Letters of Verification from the Hawaii Registrar of Vital Statistics.
Michael Jablonski, Obama’s attorney in Georgia sent hard copies to Administrative Law Judge Michael Mahili and to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
From Bob Unrah of worldnetdaily.com:
“They also sent a copy to the court of Judge Michael Malihi, the hearing officer, whose ruling is expected to be made available iyn the next few days.
That act, Taitz explained, effectively gave the court a copy of the White House documentation, and under ordinary rules of evidence the opposing side is supposed to have access to the original to verify the authenticity of the purported copy.”
“They submitted a copy and said this is a copy of the original birth certificate. Now the other party has a right to examine the original,” she said.
Her next step was to ask Malihi for a letter to the courts in Hawaii seeking a subpoena for the records. When the judge responded that the issue probably was outside his jurisdiction as an administrative law judge, she received permission to take her request to the Fulton County Superior Court.”
On its web site, the Hawaii Department of Health refers readers to the whitehouse.gov image of Obama’s long form birth certificate and they provide a link.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT VITAL RECORDS OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II
On April 27, 2011 President Barack Obama posted a certified copy of his original Certificate of Live Birth.
For information go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate