Four Types Of Forensic Evidence

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When a crime is committed, there always has to be some type of evidence to prove that person committed the crime. In "Forensic: Evidence, Clues, and Investigation" by Angela Campbell, they use Forensic evidence, so is Forensic Evidence the most important type of evidence to present at a trial.
In Forensic, they find evidence by finding prints or DNA. They also may find blood. Finding all of the evidence includes many departments. It involves the police, a medical examiner, or coroner, investigators, and lab technicians, coming from paragraph two. There are four different types of evidence. There is testimony, which is a sworn witness. There is also direct, or or observations from an eyewitness. Next there is circumstantial, which proves

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