Commonwealth v. Carlton, 43 Mass. App. Ct. 702 (1997)
A witness's identification of the object as the actual object in question is sufficient for authentication for admission into evidence, regardless of chain of custody. Any deficiency in the chain of custody affects the weight and not the admissibility.
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