Section 4.7 Court Records (Missouri)

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E. (§4.7) Court Records (Missouri)

Documents, files, books, and papers of any court of record of Missouri are admissible if properly attested. Section 490.130, RSMo Supp. 2013. A court can take judicial notice of its own records. Harter v. Lindsay, 306 S.W.2d 881, 883 (Mo. App. W.D. 1957); State v. Stidham, 403 S.W.2d 616, 618 (Mo. 1966).

It is well established that a court should take judicial notice of its own records of prior proceedings that involve the same parties and basically the same facts...