Text messages
show · educate · routeThe modern admission machine — and the evidence type courts scrutinize hardest for authorship and completeness.
What this type commonly supports
- Notice, agreements, and admissions
- Timelines of who said what, when
How the gates bear on it
Authentication
A phone number alone rarely settles authorship; content, context, and reply patterns supply the finding-support evidence.
“evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims”
Hearsay
The other side's own texts commonly ride the admissions route; third-party messages need their own.
“ADMISSIONS. — A statement that is offered against a party and is:”
Original contents
A screenshot can function as readable output of stored data, a duplicate, or an incomplete representation — capture method decides which.
The governing units, loaded whole
- § 90.901, Fla. Stat. — authentication
- § 90.803, Fla. Stat. — the exceptions (admissions at (18))
- § 90.953, Fla. Stat. — duplicates
The recurring failure modes
- Cropped threads that drop context
- No native export when one was available
- Assuming the account name proves the author
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.