Why is Thom sponsored by Apple ? <| sep |> I was going to write this whole thing about how really you want to focus on FRE 901 for admissibility because I ' m not sure that the common law chain of custody requirement is really a separate issue nor am I sure that it ' s inherently an issue of admissibility , and how I think that to the extent that chain of custody goes to admissibility it ' s largely been consumed by the much better 901 standard , and how both in the FRE and in my jurisdiction those are the rules Im aware of . But then I realized that probably you ' re not an attorney , and probably I ' d be wasting my time explaining evidence to someone who only committed enough effort to pull their position out of their ass , and that probably there ' s no possible way you would be convinced to change your position anyways . So yeah that ' s where I ' m at right now .