Practice question
A person with no custodial authority signs a statement that he casually failed to find an entry. Does that alone satisfy Section 28’s official negative-record proof?
- Yes, any private search automatically is a custodian’s certification.
- Yes, diligence and authority are expressly unnecessary.
- Yes, the missing entry is conclusively disproved.
- Yes, counsel’s signature replaces every statutory element.
- No.
Legal references
- A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC, 2019 Amendments to the Revised Rules on Evidence, Rule 132, Sections 19-36 as specifically discussed: https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html
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