Glossary
Admitted exhibit
Admitted exhibit
An exhibit is admitted when it has been offered by a party and the judge has received it into evidence. From that point the fact finder may consider it, counsel may publish it and argue from it, and it forms part of the evidentiary record on appeal. The ruling is the operative act, and the clerk records it.
Admission is not always unconditional. An exhibit can be received for a limited purpose, such as showing that a party had notice rather than proving the truth of what a document says. It can be received subject to later connection, and that condition can be withdrawn. Whether admitted exhibits go with the jury during deliberations, and how they are published, is decided separately and varies by court and jurisdiction, so confirm the local practice rather than assuming.
Example
In Smith v. Jones, the email chain about the leak under the sink was offered through Robert Jones at 13:20 on day one. The defense objected on hearsay grounds. The court overruled the objection and received the exhibit for notice only, not for the truth of its contents. The tracker row for Exhibit 004 therefore reads Admitted yes, with the limitation written out in the notes column and the transcript cited at Tr. 1:171, because in closing the difference between those two uses is the whole argument.
Practical context
Admission is the moment your exhibit list stops being a plan and starts being a record. Teams that record it carefully can answer, at any point in the trial, which exhibits are in, which are pending a deferred ruling and which were refused.
That means writing down the ruling in the words used rather than a tick, and reconciling against the clerk's log at the end of each day. Tracking exhibit status during trial sets out a routine for it, and the trial exhibit list template has the columns to record it against.
In Exhibit Room
Setting an exhibit to Admitted in the app takes two seconds from the context menu, and the label appears next to the exhibit everywhere it is listed. Because the value is text and not only a color, a colleague can read the set across the table without asking what green means.
Treat it as a working record. The clerk's log is the official one, the app has no concept of a reserved or conditional ruling, and it produces no printed admission report. Exhibit status tracking describes exactly what the five statuses do.
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