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Exam 4: Direct and Circumstantial Evidence and the Use of Inferences

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Evidence of prior similar crimes or bad acts is never admissible against a criminal defendant.

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_____________ were designed to protect victims at sexual assault trials.

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rape shield laws

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The burden of ___________requires the party with the burden on a factual issue to introduce sufficient relevant evidence to prove the fact at issue.

When eyewitness evidence is not available, it has often been stated that investigators and officers should ask, as guidelines in investigating crimes, these three questions in guiding their investigation; and secondly, why are those three key words critical to the findings of facts?

In court, similar crimes by the defendant

Inferences of guilt cannot be drawn from the fact that the defendant exercises the _____________ Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

In some circumstances, presumptions can interfere with the defendant's right to have the jury decide the facts of the case.

Discuss, describe, compare, and contrast direct and circumstantial evidence.Be sure to give examples of each.

A conviction cannot be valid if it is based solely on circumstantial evidence.

_____________are reasonable conclusions or deductions that fact finders (juries or judges) may draw from the evidence presented to them.

Direct evidence is generally more powerful and convincing than circumstantial evidence.

Evidence that the defendant was seen running from the scene of the crime shortly after the crime occurred would be circumstantial evidence of guilt.

Motive is generally an element of most crimes.

Due process requires that criminal guilt be proven by the government beyond a reasonable doubt.

Evidence of flight from the scene of a crime is

Evidence is derived from proof.

A defendant who possesses large quantities of illegal drugs may, by inference, be convicted of possession with intent to ____________.

The corpus delicti rule requires that circumstantial evidence be corroborated by direct evidence.

The burden of proof states the level of proof a part must meet to

Proof is the result of