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Paper Evidence Can Still be Persuasive

People v. Ashonti Hall: 07CR10342.  July 14, 2009.  This is a murder trial arising from a shooting that occurred in a church parking lot.  The People are presenting a diagram to the  jury which includes markings for shell casings, bullet fragments, and other evidence to show locations in the parking lot.  They have shown this to the jury by way of a document camera.

Moral?  Sometimes there is no substitute for a piece of good old-fashioned paper.  The jurors are straining to see the very small markings on the diagram.  The People also present more than 50 photographs depicting that evidence.  If each juror had their own color copy of the diagram, it would have made it easier for them to understand the evidentiary value of this evidence.  Think about the most effective way, not necessarily the most technologically advanced way, to present evidence.

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