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Abstract:
This study is motivated by the growing number of persons worldwide whom our courts of law have wrongfully convicted of crimes they never committed and those who have been wrongfully acquitted of crimes they actually committed. This scenario makes one to ponder over the judicial proceedings used in evaluating the forensic evidence tendered in our courts of law. The study is therefore, carried out to investigate how judicial proceedings affect forensic evidence. In order to achieve the foregoing objective, primary and secondary data were used. A 5-point likert scale research questionnaire was used to collect the primary data while the Secondary data were sourced from journals, textbooks and the internet. Data analysis was done using a simple linear regression technique after conducting a reliability test and converting the ordinal primary data to interval data. The study revealed that there is no significant relationship between judicial proceedings and forensic evidence. It was therefore, recommended that appropriate court proceedings that reveal the relevance, reliability, believability, persuasiveness and probative value of evidence be used for admitting and assessing forensic evidence tendered in court.
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