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Forensic evidence

Course Description: This course introduces traditional and modern criminal evidence and their reliability in court.
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: LAW 221
Objectives of the course :

The aim of this course is to familiarize the student with the evidence and methods of criminal proof, its substantive and procedural rules, as well as to reveal contemporary means of evidence and the extent to which they can be relied upon in court, in accordance with the provisions of Islamic criminal jurisprudence and the regulations issued in this regard in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, within the time limit set for studying this course.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
1. To know criminal evidence, its importance, its place, its systems, and its burden.
2- To describe traditional and modern methods of criminal evidence.
3. To explain how to handle evidence and physical traces at a crime scene.
Skills:
1- To accurately identify the correct differences between traditional and modern evidence.
2- That texts granting the criminal judge the power to assess modern evidence be analyzed.
3. To apply the rules that allow the Court of Appeal to review the judge's discretion in assessing evidence.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
1- To adhere to professional ethics through the work team's understanding of the flaws in audio recordings as evidence.
2. To take responsibility for self-directed work on a case study regarding the provisions for the use of hypnosis and polygraph in evidence.
3. To adhere to the values of loyalty and belonging to the homeland and its leadership.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
General introduction to the historical development of criminal prosecution, then definition of criminal proof and its scope, and its evidence and rules.
Confession (Admission) and the Rulings Related to It.
Testimony and its related rulings.
Preview and its related terms.
Experience and related provisions.
Clues and their related rulings.
Testimony and Qasamah and the rulings related to them.
Genetic fingerprinting and its related rulings.
Forensic medicine.
The computer as a means of investigating crimes and criminals.
Photographs and their regulations.
Audio recordings and related rulings.
Radar device and proof of exceeding the speed limit (traffic violations).
Hypnotic analysis, hypnosis, and lie detectors and their judgments.
Controls and guarantees of modern forensic evidence.

  • Last updated: 2026-05-17

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