Categories of Object Evidence

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1. In Olarte’s broad distinction, is a representation of an event the same thing as the actual physical object involved?
2. A technician identifies a pump by an existing unit-specific serial number and a distinctive damaged housing. Must it be…
3. A digital reconstruction is expressly offered to illustrate a witness’s account of a collision, not as the actual wreck…
4. A box contains fifty unused identical fasteners bearing only the same batch code. One is alleged to be the recovered fa…
5. A photograph clearly depicts a unique scratch on a seized machine. It is offered to help the court understand the machi…
6. Explain why a common model or batch code is different from a unit-specific identifying feature in Olarte’s classificati…
7. Compare an actual damaged pump with a digital reconstruction offered only to explain how it operated.
8. An object’s individual mark appears in a photograph. Explain why the photograph may assist identification without erasi…