10 Medical Evidence Oct 2023

Autoptic/Real evidence

Evidence perceived by the senses:

Experimental evidence

In court, a physician presented the lethal dose of the poison in question through administration of increasing doses to experimental mice. What type of evidence was described?

Documentary evidence

Birth certificate, medical certificate, and deposition are what type of evidence?

Corpus delicti

Objects which may be part of the body of the crime:

Corpus Delicti

Physical evidence that proves the crime existed

Associative evidence

This type of physical evidence links the suspect to the crime:

Tracing evidence

This type of physical evidence may help in locating the suspect:

Photographs

This type of evidence preservation is considered as the most practical, useful, and reliable:

Manikin method

A miniature model of a scene or of a human body indicating marks of the various aspects of the things to be preserved:

Sketching

This is a draft used to outline or picture the place or object to be preserved:

Preservation in the mind of the witness

A problematic and biased method of evidence preservation where the witness transmits to the court what he perceived:

Direct evidence

This type of evidence proves the fact in dispute without the need for any inference or other supporting evidence:

Circumstantial evidence

In this type of evidence, inference is involved as the evidence cannot stand alone to support the conviction:

Corroborative evidence

A witness testified that he saw the suspect stabbing the victim then running away from the parking lot, this testimony was backed up by a video caught by a parked car. This is an example of what type of evidence?

Competent evidence

Evidence referred as relevant and of such nature that it can be received by a court of law