Criminal Evidence
Evidence is used to prove or disprove a theory in criminal or other legal proceedings. The rules of evidence are very important in court proceeding to ensure only facts are submitted for consideration by a judge, jury, or other legal authority. Evidence is traditionally broken down into the following categories:
Real Evidence
To be admissible, real evidence, like all evidence, must be relevant, material, and competent. The relevance and materiality of real evidence are usually obvious. Evid. Code § 1400; Fed. Rules Evid. 901.
Real evidence may be authenticated in three ways--by identification of a unique object, by identification of an object that has been made unique, and by establishing a chain of custody. The easiest and usually the least troublesome way to authenticate real evidence is by the testimony of a witness who can identify a unique object in court. If a witness who can establish an object's relevance to the case marks it with his signature, initials, or another......
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