1) Opinion evidence is anything based around what the testifying witness believes or can infer utilizing the facts that are in dispute. An example of opinion evidence, “A man is seemingly angry because he is yelling and throwing things”.
An expert witness is someone that is skilled or knowledgable in a certain area through training, study or experience.
Non-expert witnesses or lay witnesses are just your average joe witnesses that testify about the regularly observed human events.
Ingram, Jefferson. Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
2) The witness has to possess a skill, knowledge, or experience in an area that that proves their opinion would be helpful to the jury in their decision.
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Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
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Ingram, Jefferson. Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
11) Business records are an exception as they are collected and created to be geared towards accuracy with no intent to be falsified as the entities that create them act accordingly with the recorded data.
The rationale behind it is for there to be an acceptable substitute for records that are kept in the everyday course of business as they possess specific authentication.
Ingram, Jefferson. Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
13) Ingram defines a dying declaration as “hearsay evidence of what a person said when he or she was aware that his or her death imminent. The evidence must relate to the way the declarant received final injuries” (p. 513).
The one making the dying declaration does not necessarily have to state that they knew the death of the victim was imminent, but the awareness of an impending death should be inferred from the nature of the wounds, used language by the declarant, surrounding circumstances, or what may have been told to the victim from medical personnel (Ingram p. 513). Homicides are one of the more common cases that dying declarations are
An expert witness is someone that is skilled or knowledgable in a certain area through training, study or experience.
Non-expert witnesses or lay witnesses are just your average joe witnesses that testify about the regularly observed human events.
Ingram, Jefferson. Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
2) The witness has to possess a skill, knowledge, or experience in an area that that proves their opinion would be helpful to the jury in their decision.
Ingram, Jefferson. …show more content…
Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
Works Cited
Ingram, Jefferson. Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
11) Business records are an exception as they are collected and created to be geared towards accuracy with no intent to be falsified as the entities that create them act accordingly with the recorded data.
The rationale behind it is for there to be an acceptable substitute for records that are kept in the everyday course of business as they possess specific authentication.
Ingram, Jefferson. Criminal Evidence. 12th ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015. Print.
13) Ingram defines a dying declaration as “hearsay evidence of what a person said when he or she was aware that his or her death imminent. The evidence must relate to the way the declarant received final injuries” (p. 513).
The one making the dying declaration does not necessarily have to state that they knew the death of the victim was imminent, but the awareness of an impending death should be inferred from the nature of the wounds, used language by the declarant, surrounding circumstances, or what may have been told to the victim from medical personnel (Ingram p. 513). Homicides are one of the more common cases that dying declarations are