Relevant, Reliable, Competent Evidence

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Relevant is the relevance attached to or associated among a proceeding with direction. Reliable is corroboration which occupies acceptable amplitude containing creditability, which can be if confirmation would be honest and legitimate. Competent includes relevant and reliable evidence anything else that is not concluded objectionable ((Gardner & Anderson, 2013).

Additionally, find a criminal court case that contains an example of relevant, reliable or competent evidence. You can use findlaw.com or other search engines to locate a useful case. Theodore Robert Bundy vs. State of Florida.

What are the basic facts of the case? The facts of the case are On February 9, 1978, a preteen girl by the name of Kimberly Leach, age 12, was believed to have been nowhere to be found in this girl’s high school which was located in Lake City, Florida, the Leach girl's to a certain degree disintegrated embodiment was found in the woodsy locality by the Suwanee River, in Suwanee County, Florida, later about two months after finding the body of the young girl, an area and county search was conducted into finding who the criminal was (FSU, Law, 2014).

Bundy was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Kimberly Leach, on July 21, 1978. The arraignment was to be conducted at Suwanee County, in Florida. Bundy had motioned for transition away from the setting, and asked for an opportunity, for a reduction from the district attorney. The motion for a opportunity of a reduction was denied by the district attorneys office. But the setting was changed and admitted, the litigation was reassigned to the courts in Orange County, in Orlando, Florida. Bundy was declared guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping. The jury asked for death. Bundy was...

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...ect match of DNA of either Bundy or Leach. The appealing of hypnosis that Bundy requested was smart, especially in one of the main eye witnesses, back then they used hypnosis in most cases to help lead investigators in having witnesses testify in court. Bundy argued that it wasn’t professional so the courts ended up reviewing hypnosis and coming to the conclusion that it wasn’t of their best interest to use the main eye witness statement while hypnotized. Most of the evidence found and testimonies are reliable which eyewitnesses are mostly.

Works Cited

FSU/Library (1985-2014). Supreme Court of Florida. Theodore Robert Bundy vs. State of

Florida. Retrieved from http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/59128/op-59128.pdf

Gardner, T., & Anderson, T. (2013). Criminal evidence. (8th ed., pp. 35-37). Mason, Ohio:

Cengage Learning. DOI: www.cengage.com

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