Informative Speech
How Evidence is Handled at a Crime Scene
I. Introduction
A. Attention Getter: “Bag it and tag it” … or is there more to it than that?
B. Introduce Topic: This is how evidence is handled at a crime scene.
C. Ethos: Crime is my favorite genre regarding media. Everything from what
exactly happed to how cases are solved are very interesting to me. I have also
done some research on it.
D. Link to audience: Most of us have watch a few if not many crime related shows,
movies, podcasts, or documentaries.
E. Thesis: Today I will be speaking about how evidence is handled at crime scenes.
F. Preview of Speech:
1. What is evidence?
2. The different types of evidence
3. How it is collected
4. What law enforcement does with the evidence once collected
Transition: To get started we will look at what evidence is
II. Body
A. What is evidence?
1. According to Lexico Dictionaries, evidence is the available body of
facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or
valid.
2. According to hirealawyer.findlaw.com, In legal terms, evidence covers
the burden of proof, admissibility, relevance, weight and sufficiency of
what should be admitted into the record of the legal proceeding.
3. Evidence is crucial in both criminal and civil proceedings.
Transition: Now that you know exactly what evidence is, I am going to tell you the different
types of evidence.
B. The different types of evidence
1. According to hirealawyer.findlaw.com, Real evidence or physical
evidence is tangible things that consists of material items involved in a
case. According to criminal.findlaw.com, this includes things like
fingerprints, DNA, a weapon, blood samples and other physical objects.
