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  2. Presentence investigation report - Wikipedia

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    The defendant's answers will determine follow up questions, items for further investigation or corroboration, and, ultimately, whether the data should be included in the report. [ citation needed ] The presentence investigation is often the first inquiry into the offender's past, and the initial interview provides the framework for the report's ...

  3. Chain of custody - Wikipedia

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    An identifiable person must always have the physical custody of a piece of evidence. In practice, this means that a police officer or detective will take charge of a piece of evidence, document its collection, and hand it over to an evidence clerk for storage in a secure place. These transactions, and every succeeding transaction between the ...

  4. Leading question - Wikipedia

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    A leading question is a question that suggests a particular answer and contains information the examiner is looking to have confirmed. [1] The use of leading questions in court to elicit testimony is restricted in order to reduce the ability of the examiner to direct or influence the evidence presented.

  5. Hearsay in United States law - Wikipedia

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    Other exceptions, declarant's availability immaterial: In the United States Federal Rules of Evidence, separate exceptions are made for public records, family records, and records in ancient documents of established authenticity. When regular or public records are kept, the absence of such records may also be used as admissible hearsay evidence.

  6. Procedures of the Supreme Court of the United States

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    While working for the Justice Department, present-day Chief Justice John Roberts—a former Rehnquist law clerk—wrote an analysis of Wallace v. Jaffree [ 27 ] in which he indicated his belief (based on the length and structure) that Rehnquist's dissent had started out as an opinion for the court, but lost its majority; similar speculation is ...

  7. CompStat - Wikipedia

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    CompStat is a management system created in April 1994 by Bill Bratton and Jack Maple, whom Bratton met while he was chief of the New York City Transit Police and later hired as the New York Police Department's top anti-crime specialist when he became Police Commissioner in 1993. [1]

  8. There are some notable records of pro se litigants winning large amounts as plaintiffs, including Robert Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, who won more than $10 million from Ford for patent infringement, [41] and Dr. Julio Perez (District of Southern New York 10-cv-08278), who won approximately $5 million in a federal jury ...

  9. Records management - Wikipedia

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    Not all documents are records. A record is a document consciously (consciously means that the creator intentionally keeps it) retained as evidence of an action. Records management systems generally distinguish between records and non-records (convenience copies, rough drafts, duplicates), which do not need formal management.