Exam 13: How Different Types of Evidence Are Introduced

"Experiments" for the jury needs to be conducted under circumstances similar to those in the event in question.

Obtaining a DNA sample is intrusive and can only be obtained by drawing blood.

Polygraph evidence is

A police officer's badge is a/an

Evidence, such as maps, charts, and reconstructions, are known as

This case held that criminal defendants have no constitutional right to introduce expert testimonial evidence that may passed a polygraph examination.

Which one of the following introduced at the beginning of the chapter is not a general category of evidence?

This term describes evidence that must have been in constant possession of one or more persons typically charged with handling evidence.

Real evidence is protected by the Fifth Amendment.

Demonstrative evidence appears throughout the Federal Rules of Evidence.

The purpose of the best evidence rule is to prove process.

This is evidence sufficient to sustain a finding that an object (or document) is the object (or document) that the proponent of the evidence claims it is.

Which of the following items cannot be self-authenticated?

For scientific evidence to be admitted it must pass the Daubert test.

Real evidence is frequently protected by the

Frye v. United States (1923) established polygraph testing as a legitimate science.

Courts quickly accept the approach to rape trauma syndrome that pushes the jury for a guilty verdict despite the lack of physical evidence.

The Daubert test requires that the science be

Demonstrative evidence, although its nowhere found in the rules of evidence, are still bound by FRE rules.