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Evidence - ✔✔Anything used to demonstrate the truth of an assertion
Direct evidence - ✔✔Directly supports the truth of assertion
Circumstancial evidence - ✔✔Any and all evidence that is not direct
Testimonial evidence - ✔✔Oral or written testimony offered in court as proof of the truth
2 groups of forensic evidence - ✔✔Physical
Biological
Evidence must be... - ✔✔Relevant
Competent
Legally obtained
Voluntary encounters - ✔✔Knock and talk
Talk to anyone on streets voluntarily
Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine - ✔✔Direct &indirect evidence will be suppressed if the evidence is
tainted by illegal conduct of the police
Inevitable discovery - ✔✔Evidence is admissable if the prosecustion can establish thay the evidence
would have been discovered by lawful means
Good faith exception - ✔✔Officers acting in good faith on facially valid warrant do not violate the rights
of the defendant if the warrant is later to be found invalid