§ 1-3. Preliminary Questions

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1-3. Preliminary Questions

(a) Questions of admissibility generally. Preliminary questions concerning the qualification and competence of a person to be a witness, the existence of a privilege or the admissibility of evidence shall be determined by the court.

(b) Admissibility conditioned on fact. When the admissibility of evidence depends upon connecting facts, the court may admit the evidence upon proof of the connecting facts or subject to later proof of the connecting facts.