Questions tagged [evidence]
For questions concerning evidence - including the handling of evidence, rejection or admittance of evidence in a court of law, and serving evidence in civil matters.
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How to prove that someone forged my signature on a contract that I was not aware of
How to prove that someone forged my signature on a contract that I was not aware of using DocuSign and a Per-Selected Style signature
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Is a doctor's diagnosis in clinical notes, made without a confirmatory test, admissible evidence in an assault case in California?
I am unsure of the exact process for diagnosing a concussion, but I assume it typically involves an examination to confirm the diagnosis. My doctor diagnosed me with a mild concussion based on my ...
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Could Trump have just avoided the charges?
In the recent NY v. Trump case, Mr. Trump was convicted of falsifying business records (34 times).
I found this article helpful in explaining the case
Once Mr. Trump or his lawyers suspected that law ...
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Is a victim's testimony alone sufficient evidence to support a felony conviction?
If, for example, a woman accuses a man of harassing her, can the man be convicted of a felony and sent to prison solely on the basis of the victim's testimony as the sole witness in the case without ...
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Probability In Legal Cases - Evidence vs Information
While reading Probability and Statistics books related to Legal cases, I came across usages of two terms - Evidence and Information - that are a bit confusing to me. Specifically, while solving a ...
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How is slang deciphered in court?
Many of you may have seen the popular internet video about LMFAO the hacker - in short, it's a comedy skit about a Secret Service agent trying to decipher text messages and mistakenly assuming that ...
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On what basis are Miranda rights enforced?
According to a previous answer to one of my questions, you don't have a constitutional right to a Miranda warning, my question then is how did the USA universally develop Miranda if it was not through ...
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Are you guilty of tampering with evidence if you hide a morally dubious act which you didn't know for certain was a crime?
Consider the following scenario:
A person has some texts in which they say to a friend "yeah, I was riding way under the speed in that road to annoy people".
This is a crime.
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Judge didn't receive my submitted evidence! [closed]
I submitted documents at the surrogate's office for evidence in my case but the judge claimed that they didnt have anything submitted from me. This is a civil case and unfortunately I cannot afford a ...
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Introducing evidence into trial in the US
How does one introduce evidence into trial? Do all pieces of evidence have to be introduced into trial before trial starts? Can I bring additional evidence on the day of the trial and introduce it on ...
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Is a party entitled to a copy of a video of a document signing?
My wife and I signed documents ( doc-u-sign) via - they performed a video of us signing documents. As I’m signing these we were also talking to an employee that is in charge of this process .The ...
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Request an affidavit "just in case"
Suppose I believe person A to have a certain pattern of behavior. I also believe that person B has direct experience with said behavior. I, as a non-lawyer with no connection to the legal system ...
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Is producing a lookalike a sufficient defense against eye-witness identification?
In Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" Book 2 Chapter 3 'A Disappointment', a man is on trial. He has been identified by an eyewitness who testifies under oath that he saw the defendant ...
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How does the law deal with translating inherently ambiguous writing systems?
During a trial, sometimes the prosecutor must present written materials (emails, text messages, files) obtained from the defendant as evidence in order to prove something. Sometimes this evidence can ...
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Admissibility as evidence of photographs taken by a mobile phone
It would appear that Samsung has admitted that images captured using their mobile phones' "Scene Optimizer" feature (which can be disabled) are not necessarily an accurate photograph of what ...
