Admissibility of statements: signed responses to summons may be used when the maker is unavailable or justice requires it.

A statement made and signed in response to a summons issued under the summonsing provision is relevant in prosecution to prove its facts when the maker is unavailable to testify-dead, cannot be found, incapable, kept away by the adverse party, or when obtaining the maker would cause unreasonable delay or expense-or when the maker is examined as a witness and the court, considering the circumstances, admits the statement in the interest of justice.

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