Practice question
A party offers a letter only to prove notice, accurately stating that purpose. Later it asks the court to treat the same offer as automatically proving the truth of every accusation in the letter. What is the sound approach?
- Every stated purpose necessarily includes all other uses.
- The offered purpose matters; a different substantive use must satisfy its own applicable requirements and cannot be assumed from the notice offer alone.
- The letter must always be destroyed.
- Purpose is irrelevant once a document has a number.
- The notice offer automatically proves guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/am_19-08-15-sc_2019.html — Rule 132 sections 34–36: formal purpose, oral offers, timing of testimonial/documentary/object offers and immediate objection.
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