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Is Google Map evidence admissible in a jury trial?\u00a0 An appeals court in Florida recently said \u201cnot necessarily\u201d when it reviewed this question in City of Miami v. Kho. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Juanita Kho sued the City of Miami for negligence after a trip-and-fall accident on a Miami sidewalk in 2010.\u00a0 The sidewalk Juanita tripped on had an asphalt patch that was one-and-a quarter inches lower than the adjoining concrete slab.\u00a0 Juanita alleged that is what caused her to fall, and that the difference in elevation was a \u201cdangerous and defective condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to win her case, Juanita was required to prove that Miami had either actual or constructive knowledge of the sidewalk\u2019s condition at trial.\u00a0 Unable to prove that Miami had actual knowledge of the condition of the sidewalk, she sought to prove constructive knowledge using a Google Maps photograph of the sidewalk dated November 2007 to show that the \u201cdangerous and defective condition\u201d existed then and that Miami should have known about it when she tripped in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Is Google Map evidence admissible in a jury trial?\u00a0 An appeals court in Florida recently said \u201cnot necessarily\u201d when it reviewed this question in City of Miami v. 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