When you are in a criminal court case, the prosecution might try to use voice identification evidence. This means they think they can identify someone's voice. The prosecution must prove that the way they identified the voice is reliable. They must show this is probably true, or the evidence is not allowed in court.
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Voice identification evidence offered by the prosecution in a criminal proceeding is inadmissible unless the prosecution proves on the balance of probabilities that the circumstances in which the identification was made have produced a reliable identification.
