Rule 1004(1) allows the admission of secondary evidence in case of nonfraudulent loss or destruction of an "original".

United States v. Paccione, 949 F.2d 1183, 1201 (2d Cir. 1991) (upholding trial court's admission of character witnesses who testified on accused's honesty and integrity and exclusion of evidence relating to accused's devotion to his son suffering from cerebral palsy; held, "it was well within the court's...A criminal defendant may offer a pertinent trait of his or her character circumstantially -- to show the defendant's doing or non-doing of a specific act.

Cf. United States v. Dixon, 413 F.3d 520, 525 (5th Cir. 2005) (upholding trial court's exclusion of the inculpatory statements of defendant's boyfriend to an ATF agent because of "a major inconsistency between....If a statement is offered against a criminal defendant, the statement qualifies as a statement against interest for purposes of the federal hearsay exception for statements against interest only if there is corroborating evidence of the trustworthiness of the statement.

United States v. Withorn, 204 F.3d 790, 794 (8th Cir. 2000) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of accused's past sexual assault where it was probative as it showed accused's propensity toward a similar type of sexual behavior).Evidence of a person's other sexual misconduct is frequently admissible in sexual assault cases, child molestation cases, and in civil cases involving claims of sexual misconduct.