Relevancy of statements in prosecution: signed summons responses may be admissible when maker is unavailable or court admits them.

A signed statement made in response to a summons is relevant to prove its contents in prosecution when the maker is unavailable to testify-such as being deceased, missing, incapable, kept away by an adverse party, or when securing presence would cause unreasonable delay or expense-or when the maker, though examined as a witness, is permitted by the court to have the statement admitted in evidence in the interest of justice.

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