Police Foundations LAW120 Chapter 10: Types of Evidence
29 May 2016
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Evidence is categorized as being direct or circumstantial: direct evidence evidence given by a witness about a material fact that the witness experienced. It is actually quite rare in a trial. Example: if an eyewitness were to say i heard paul tell zeke that he was going to fuckin" kill him. Then i saw him pull out a gun and shoot him. This could be direct evidence at paul"s trial. The material fact would be something that the witness actually experienced : saw, heard, touched, smelled, credibility of the witness is a deciding issue. If you watch television , you may have been misled into believing that no onc can convict on circumstantial evidence. That is nonsense: people are regularly convicted on nothing but circumstantial evidence , physical objects that are used as evidence are categorized as real evidence, real evidence is also circumstantial evidence. The gun and bullet fragments would be real evidence.
