Talk:Falsified evidence

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What about forged evidence used to try to acquit? Defendants try to forge alibi evidence like receipts fairly often, and forged emails are not uncommon these days. --James S. 05:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

"Falsified evidence, forged evidence or tainted evidence is used to either convict an innocent person, or to guarantee conviction of a guilty person. Some evidence is forged because the person doing the forensic work finds it easier to fabricate evidence than to perform the actual work involved. The planting of a gun at a crime scene would be used by the police to justify a shooting, and avoid possible prosecution for manslaughter"

1. Forged evidence cannot only be used to convict the innocent or gaurantee conviction of the guilty, but also to have the guilty go free.

2. The comment about the forensic evidence has no factual basis, and is simply hypothesis on the part of the author. There is no possible factual source to back up this generalization.

3. The entire paragraph seems to simply be the opinion of the author and examples of what would be falsified evidence. IT is not a NPOV introduction and definition.

EMT1871 02:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)