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Legal Medicine 1
Legal Medicine 1
Characteristics of Law:
It is a rule of conduct
Dictated by legitimate power
Compulsory and obligatory to all
Forms of Law
Limitations:
Indecency and impropriety
Repulsive objects and those offensive to the
sensibilities
Medical Evidence
Testimonial Evidence
Ordinary witness
Expert witness
Medical Evidence
Experimental Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Medical Certificate
Medical Expert Opinion
Deposition
Medical Evidence
Physical Evidence
Truth Serum
Narcoanalysis or narcosynthesis
Intoxication
Sweating
Color change
Dryness of the mouth
Excessive activity of the Adam’s apple
Fidgeting
Peculiar feeling inside
Deception Detection
Scientific Interrogation
Emotional appeal
Mutt and Jeff technique
Bluff on split-pair technique
Stern approach
The subject is given the opportunity to make a
lengthy, time-consuming narration
Deception Detection
Kinds:
Extra-judicial confession
Voluntary
Involuntary
Judicial confession
Deception Detection
Confession
Kinds:
Extra-judicial confession – made outside of the
court prior to the trial of the case
Under the rules of court, extra-judicial confession is
not a sufficient ground for conviction unless
corroborated by evidence of corpus delicti
Voluntary
Involuntary
Deception Detection
Confession
Kinds:
Judicial confession – confession of an accused in
court
Under the rules of court, admissions made by the
parties in the pleadings, or in the course of the trial
or other proceedings do not require proof and
cannot be contradicted unless previously shown to
have been made through palpable mistake
Maltreatment of Prisoners
Elements ( Art. 235, RPC)