Why Is It Important To Gather Evidence

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The most important evidence that I would gather is clues, fingerprints, and other kind of evidence that might help me find the person who is guilty or they might just think it’s me. I will gather enough evidence and witness for myself or maybe if it is someone else that did that crime, I will tell them to get enough witness or evidences that you didn’t do it. My evidence’s would be witness, trails where I have been, and the clues where I have gone to over the weekend. So some people such as investigators will find evidences that might have done it to someone else. In the story page 3 paragraph 1 it says “fingerprint, body fluids, and bullets” this means that these three items are important to the police or the investigator to see who did the

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