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| Evidence | body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. |
| Testimonial Evidence | Spoken or signed elicited from a witness |
| Documentary evidence | paper evidence, such as medical records |
| Real Evidence | - Real evidence, often called physical evidence, consists of material items involved in a case, objects and things the jury can physically hold and inspect |
| Demonstrative Evidence | usually charts and diagrams, demonstrate or illustrate the testimony of a witness. |
| Direct evidence | supports the truth of an assertion (in criminal law, an assertion of guilt or of innocence) directly, i.e., without an intervening inference. |
| Circumstantial Evidence | Evidence that implies a person committed a crime, (for example, the person was seen running away from the crime scene) |
| Admissible Evidence | Evidence that is formally presented before the trier of fact (i.e., the judge or jury) to consider in deciding the case |
| Relevant Evidence | - having some reasonable connection with something….have a tendency to prove or disprove a matter of fact… |
| material evidence | evidence that is likely to affect the determination of a matter or issue… Examples of this kind of evidence are photographs, video and audio |
| Probative value Evidence | evidence which is sufficiently useful to prove something important in a trial…. For example, in the case of a motor vehicle accident, a witness's testimony that she saw one automobile enter the intersection on a red light is a probative fact |
| Habit Evidence | evidence as used in Federal Rules of Evidence refers to the evidence used to prove that a person acted in a particular way on a particular occasion based on that person's tendency to reflexively respond to a particular circumstance in a particular way. Examples: 1. Person always observe stop signs; 2. Person always drive with or without seatbelts; 3.Dr. always warn patient of risk of surgery |
| Character evidence | evidence is the evidence which is proved by the defendant’s previous bad habits. It may also be based on the opinion of a witness and the reputation in the community. It is not generally admissible. For example, a defendant cannot offer the testimony of friends (or her own testimony) that she is usually a very careful driver as circumstantial evidence she was probably driving carefully and not negligently on the day of an accident. |
| Subjective | refers to personal perspective, feelings, or opinions |
| Objective | refers to facts |
