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Cell phone and carrier records
show · educate · routeCall detail, subscriber, and cell-site records — carrier-held business records that arrive by lawful process.
What this type commonly supports
- Contact between numbers, times, and durations
- Approximate device location patterns (with expert help)
How the gates bear on it
Hearsay
Carrier records ride the business-records exception; the certification route applies.
“as shown by a certification or declaration that complies with paragraph (c) and s. 90.902(11), unless the sources of information or other circumstances show lack of trustworthiness”
Expert need
Cell-site interpretation is opinion territory — the expert sections govern the witness.
The governing units, loaded whole
- § 90.803, Fla. Stat. — the exceptions
- § 92.605, Fla. Stat. — production by businesses
- § 90.702, Fla. Stat. — testimony by experts
The recurring failure modes
- Reading precise location into tower data without an expert
- Skipping the subscriber-vs-user distinction
Software, not a law firm. This page teaches how Florida's evidence gates generally bear on this type — legal information, not legal advice, and never a prediction about your evidence. Whether a particular item clears the gates in your case is judgment work: an independent Florida attorney can review it and bill you directly. The five-gate frame lives on the Evidence Command Center.