forensic evidence

collocation in English

meaningsofforensicandevidence

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forensic
adjective[before noun]
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/fəˈren.zɪk/
related to scientific methods of solving crimes, involving examining the objects or substances that are involved in ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk
/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/
us
/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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(Definition offorensicandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This sort of indexical relationship, or seeming to be one, underlies the argumentative power offorensicevidenceand eyewitness identifications.
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The scene of a crime will always containforensicevidencewith clues relating to the victim, and the perpetrator of the crime.
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Literally days were spent considering the strength of theforensicevidence, and further days were spent considering whether the confessions could be relied on.
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It is necessary to investigate the police andforensicevidence.
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We need an improvement inforensicevidenceto enable police to make arrests through the better use of the skills of scenes of crime officers.
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However, his or her ability to do that may depend on an ability to test theforensicevidence.
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Fourthly, it is not contested that the police introducedforensicevidence—examples of fibre—without any attempt to check its authenticity.
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Again, that concealed the disparity between theforensicevidenceand the rest of the evidence.
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There was a total lack of hardforensicevidence, but sadly there was no lack of hearsay.
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The trial judge also advised the jury that theforensicevidencecould not be regarded as a source of corroboration.
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Technological advances in the field offorensicevidencemay make it possible for an offence to be brought to court years after the event.
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Another of our concerns was the difficulty for the defence of obtaining independentforensicevidence.
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More and more prosecutions nowadays hinge onforensicevidence.
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Not surprisingly, the appeals have also centred on theforensicevidence.
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There is a tendency forforensicevidenceto be considered by the courts to have some mystical scientific status which it does not have.
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Withoutforensicevidencemany crimes would go unsolved.
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In difficult cases, whereforensicevidencemay not exist or be inconclusive, the evidence of the child is crucial.
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The defence producedforensicevidence, and frankly, our evidence could not match it.
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One cannot underestimate the importance offorensicevidencein the investigation of a crime.
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At the original trial, theforensicevidencewas the key.
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