Evidence must be relevant to the case and hava a legitimate influence on the case.
What is material?
100
The standard use to convict someone of a crime.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
100
Something learned “second-hand.”
What is indirect knowledge?
100
Includes mockups and scale models relating to the crime and is used to help juries visualize various aspects associated with the crime.
What is demonstrative evidence?
100
Impressions left in soft substances such as putty, grease, tar, butter, or soft soap.
What are plastic fingerprints?
200
Surveillance, aerial, night, laboratory, and mug shots.
What is investigative photography?
200
A person is in a position to consent or object to governmental intrusion or conduct.
What is standing?
200
A person who is requesting that law enforcement take some action.
What is a complainant?
200
Establishes proof of a fact without any other evidence.
What is direct evidence?
200
When these are found at a scene, place them on a clean piece of paper, use a druggist fold, and place in an envelope or small box. Be sure to seal all edges and openings and identify.
What are hair and fibers?
300
A pencil drawn picture of the scene showing the relationship to various items at the scene.
What is a rough sketch?
300
Any evidence that is obtained in violation of a person’s constitutional rights, when that evidence is obtained by law enforcement, cannot be used against the defendant.
What is the exclusionary rule?
300
When investigators impede or negatively influence the interview process, thereby causing the subject to provide inaccurate information.
What is contamination?
300
Links a suspect with a crime and includes fingerprints, footprints, bloodstains, and fibers.
What is associative evidence?
300
The most common weapon used in violent crimes.
What is a firearm?
400
A common method that uses two adjacent walls as fixed points from which distances to various objects are measured, at right angles.
What is rectangular-coordinate?
400
Consent, abandoned property, stop and frisk, and search of a vehicle.
What are exceptions to the search warrant requirement?
400
A specialized interview designed to elicit an incriminating statement from the suspect.
What is interrogation?
400
Evidence that tends to prove guilt or innocence.
What is probative evidence?
400
The study of the dynamics of projectiles.
What is ballistics?
500
Commonly used in outdoor scenes and uses straight line measures from two fixed object to the evidence’s location.
What is the triangulation Method?
500
If a police officer states there is a warrant for the arrest of a person, the second officer may make an arrest of the suspect.
What is the fellow officer rule?
500
Required during custodial interrogation.
What is the Miranda Warnings?
500
Evidence that has a legitimate or effective influence on the outcome of the case.
What is material evidence?
500
Complex and individual in color, composition, and layer composition. As such the evidence may not be individualistic in nature, but is great circumstantial evidence.