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In the law of evidence, similar fact evidence (or the similar fact principle) establishes the conditions under which factual evidence of past misconduct of the accused can be admitted at trial for the purpose of inferring that the accused committed the misconduct at issue.

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Similar fact evidence

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In the law of evidence, similar fact evidence (or the similar fact principle) establishes the conditions under which factual evidence of past misconduct...

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Law of evidence in South Africa

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courts will allow similar-fact evidence: Similar-fact evidence is not admissible merely to show a propensity to commit crimes. Even evidence which does show...

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Makin v Attorney General for New South Wales

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Privy Council which gave rise to the modern common law rule of similar fact evidence. A husband and wife, John and Sarah Makin, were baby farmers. A...

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R v B

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other evidence were not enough to convict B as they did not meet the proper criteria for the admissibility of what is known as similar fact evidence. As...

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Moorov v HM Advocate

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Advocate 1930 JC 68 is a Scots criminal and evidence law case that concerns admissibility of similar fact evidence. The High Court of Justiciary established...

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Real evidence

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gave rise to the litigation, introduced as evidence in a judicial proceeding (such as a trial) to prove a fact in issue based on the object's physical characteristics...

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Cherry picking

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Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a...

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Evidence Act 1950

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Similar Fact Evidence under the Evidence Act 1950" (2003) 7 Jurnal Undang-undang dan Masyarakat 71 ProQuest Mageswary Siva Subramaniam, "Similar fact...

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Admissible evidence

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disprove some fact at issue in the proceeding. However, if the utility of this evidence is outweighed by its tendency to cause the fact finder to disapprove...

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Exculpatory evidence

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Exculpatory evidence is evidence favorable to the defendant in a criminal trial that exonerates or tends to exonerate the defendant of guilt. It is the...

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Gilbert Paul Jordan

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Further, the Crown provided evidence that Jordan was linked to the deaths of six other First Nations women. Similar fact evidence showed Jordan had been with...

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Evidence

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misleading mental states can still qualify as evidence. In phenomenology, evidence is understood in a similar sense. Here, however, it is limited to intuitive...

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Judicial notice

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Judicial notice is a rule in the law of evidence that allows a fact to be introduced into evidence if the truth of that fact is so notorious or well-known, or...

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Chain of custody

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substance in evidence was in fact in the possession of the defendant. An identifiable person must always have the physical custody of a piece of evidence. In practice...

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Expert witness

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"expert evidence" within the area of their expertise. Their testimony may be rebutted by testimony from other experts or by other evidence or facts. The...

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Incontrovertible evidence

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Incontrovertible evidence and conclusive evidence (less formally, concrete evidence and hard evidence) are colloquial terms for evidence introduced to prove a fact that...

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Documentary evidence

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Documentary evidence is any evidence that is, or can be, introduced at a trial in the form of documents, as distinguished from oral testimony. Documentary...

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Testimony

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a form of evidence in which a witness makes a "solemn declaration or affirmation ... for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact". According...

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The Family Murders

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(voluntarily discontinue criminal charges) during the trial when crucial similar fact evidence was deemed inadmissible by the presiding judge. Von Einem was also...

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Digital evidence

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in the United States have applied the Federal Rules of Evidence to digital evidence in a similar way to traditional documents, although important differences...

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Outline of evidence law in the United States

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Eyewitness identification Character evidence Habit evidence Similar fact evidence Documentary evidence Authentication Best evidence rule Self-authenticating documents...

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Demonstrative evidence

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Demonstrative evidence is evidence in the form of a representation of an object. This is, as opposed to, real evidence, testimony, or other forms of evidence used...

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Gerard John Schaefer

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physical evidence linking the defendant to the victims, the evidence and paraphernalia recovered in the search warrants, and the similar fact evidence outlined...

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