The concept of material evidence

Let's see what the material evidence is. These are some objects in the material world that have left in themselves a visual or invisible change of their own states or properties. They are able to convey information about various circumstances. Material evidence is used in criminal proceedings. They are collected, tested and evaluated.

Material evidence can also be used in the civil process. Their essence, in contrast to other sources of evidence, which contain a verbal description of one or another person of some circumstance, is the direct mapping that matters in the case.

Describing material evidence as objects serving as means for establishing significant circumstances in the case, the legislator also identifies certain categories that are extremely common in investigative and judicial practice. These include items that can be used as material evidence. These can be tools and tools for the commission of a crime (all items used by a criminal when they achieve a socially dangerous goal, and their purpose is not taken into account).

These include weapons for committing murder, objects involved in the theft of material values. Also, these are tools in poaching (firearms or cold weapons for hunting, trap, net, etc. It can also be items that have retained various traces of the crime, such as clothes with bloody traces or mechanical injuries that were formed during the commission of Or other crime, including objects with gunshot or explosive damage - a broken door during the theft from the apartment, a hacked safe and so on.

Objects that have become objects of unlawful actions. This is a stolen vehicle, stolen money or securities or other valuables and things of the material world. In addition, these are various weapons, psychotropic and narcotic substances, etc., as well as material assets or other values acquired as a result of criminal activity.

The entire list of items that can be included in the status of "material evidence" is initially unrealistic. Here you can also include items that bear traces of the preparation of the crime itself. These are the evidence of the person's location in the place where the criminal act was committed, and traces of his shoes, and the packaging elements for parts of the human body, and traces from the repair of any room, car where the crime was committed.

There may also be physical evidence documents in cases where they were the object of a crime, were means at its preparation, commission, and also when they left traces of such actions. All these evidences are withdrawn and recognized as material.