Fabrication of evidence
Definition
The deliberate creation of false scientific results or the falsification of existing results for use in legal proceedings. It is the most serious form of forensic misconduct and can constitute a criminal offence in most jurisdictions, including under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 in India.
Related terms
- Contextual bias
- The influence of case-relevant background information (suspect financial difficulties, police intelligence) on the direction of an examiner's technical analysis. Demonstrated experimentally for...
- Duty of impartiality
- The obligation that an expert witness owes to the court rather than to the party that retained them. Codified in England and...
- Sequential unmasking
- An information-sequencing protocol in which the examiner receives the questioned material first, completes and documents the analysis before receiving the known standards,...
- Witness immunity
- A common-law protection that historically shielded expert witnesses from civil liability for statements made in judicial proceedings. In England and Wales it...
- Wrongful conviction review
- A post-conviction process in which a court, review commission, or independent body re-examines the evidence supporting a conviction. In England and Wales...
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- Expert Liability, Bias and MisconductThe deliberate creation of false scientific results or the falsification of existing results for use in legal proceedings. It is the most serious form of foren...