Marking the Evidence for Identification
The Procedure for Presenting Something in Evidence At trial before a lawyer offers something into evidence, he may want to show that piece of evidence to a witness. This piece of evidence could be a document or an object; however, the lawyer cannot simply walk up to the witness and ask him to have a look. The lawyer has to firstly indicate what the piece of evidence is, and tell the court reporter what it is. This is done because if the case every goes to appeal, the incident of the lawyer asking the witness to look at a particular thing, will be recorded, and