Rules of Evidence

Catalog description

This course is a study of the nature, types, and degrees of evidence used in criminal prosecutions. The course emphasizes the vital importance of "why" and "how" evidence handled by the forensic criminalists for proper presentation and administration into the trial, in accordance with historical rule governing the admissibility of evidence in court. This includes the citizen-to- criminalist, criminalist-to-criminalist, and criminalist-to-prosecution chain of evidence rules. A basic legalistic criminalistic component will be stressed, which will examine the various analytical systems used in the evaluation of physical evidence which includes the correct identification, collection, and preservation of evidence.