A Handwritten Document Must Be Authenticated Before It Can Be

A handwritten document must be authenticated before it can be considered for admission into evidence. In order to authenticate a handwritten document, the party offering the document:

A) may have a person who has sufficient familiarity with the handwriting of the document's purported author offer an opinion concerning the identity of the author of the document.
B) prior to trial and for trial purposes, may have a person study the handwriting of the person who is supposed to be the author and offer an opinion concerning who wrote the document in question.
C) must qualify an expert witness schooled in the art and science of questioned documents to offer an opinion concerning who wrote the document sought to be introduced.
D) may ask that the judge permit the jury to make a comparison between the supposed author's handwriting and the known handwriting sample of the author.