In accordance with the legal approach to these issues, "the courts received testimony or a memorandum regarding the contents of tapes, a transcript or a restoration report, even in the absence of the restoration tape. Edited tapes were received, which contained only part of the content of the original tapes, as well as tables containing data that a witness had compiled following viewing of the original tapes, when the original recordings were not preserved in full" [Vaki, ibid., at pp. 355-356]. The matter of the viewing report P/45 is not substantially different from these examples, which were brought from the case law. In fact, this is indeed a secondary view, but one in which the circumstances of its editing attest to a high level of credibility and a high degree of compatibility with the source view, since this is a document that was created from the outset in an attempt to reflect in the most authentic and accurate way what was seen in the original videos, for the purposes of the future legal proceeding. Therefore, and in the absence of any concern about the credibility of the document, it is clearly an admissible document on which findings can be based.
As for the issue of weight, the accuser does not dispute that the lack of the original videos somewhat reduces the weight of the secondary evidence, the viewing report. Indeed, the lack of the videos prevents an effective cross-examination by the author of the document, as well as the ability of the court and the parties to make a direct and direct impression of the source, which carries broader and continuous information regarding the routes of the Mitsubishi and Toyota. However, in my opinion, this is still a view of considerable weight, and this is due to a number of cumulative reasons. First, as mentioned, this is a report prepared by a skilled police investigator, as part of a murder investigation, which involved repeated viewing of the original videos over several days, with the stated aim of creating as continuous and accurate a picture of the events as possible. Therefore, from the outset, the circumstances of the preparation of the viewing report, the work invested in it, and its declared purpose to be used in a criminal legal proceeding, attest to a high level of reliability and an excessive ability to give weight to the data detailed therein.