Examples of methods of authentication that may be used to satisfy the general requirement of authentication

United States v. Davis, 181 F.3d 147, 149 (D.C. Cir. 1999) (upholding trial court's admission of officer's redacted buy report as pretrial identification because in a case with similar facts, the court "affirmed the....A pretrial identification is exempt from the prohibition against hearsay evidence if the witness who made the identification testifies and is subject to cross-examination at the trial or hearing at which the identification is offered and if the witness who made the identification did so after perceiving the person whom he or she identified.

United States v. Goodchild, 25 F.3d 55, 61-62 (1st Cir. 1994) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of the telephone statement memos as business records because "[the statement memos met] the strictures of the....The hearsay exception for "business records" recognized by Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6) or a comparable State rule applies only if the record was made at or near the time of the events it records.

United States v. Jackson, 335 F.3d 170, 178-179 (2d Cir. 2003) (upholding trial court's exclusion of another person's plea allocution under Rule 804(b)(3) because "[defendant] cannot satisfy Rule 804(b)(3) considering that....A statement falls within the federal hearsay exception for statements against interest only if the statement at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.