Digital Evidence Models

Criminal Procedure Handoff Map

Digital evidence process labels should hand off to lawyer, judge, and human review. Honesty note: simplified US federal classroom model; Fourth Amendment doctrine and state rules vary; the pinned first step states the as-of date; not legal advice.

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Digital evidence model honesty note

Honesty note: simplified US federal classroom model; Fourth Amendment doctrine and state rules vary; as of June 24, 2026; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

digital evidence model as of June24,2026\text{digital evidence model as of }June 24, 2026

Build a digital-evidence review spine

The stated process connects source record, actor label, event record, warrant-or-exception label, evidence item, custody chain, and lawyer, judge, or human review.

source to custody to review\text{source to custody to review}

Example case-study slots

A future case study would fill each slot with pinned facts: source, actor, event, label row, evidence item, custody chain, and reviewer notes.

slots before conclusions\text{slots before conclusions}

The flow recomputes the route

The criminal procedure handoff map has 7 nodes and 6 edges from source record to lawyer, judge, and human review.

nodes=7,edges=6\text{nodes}=7,\quad \text{edges}=6

Diagram note

The diagram is a workflow spine. It connects review artifacts without deciding any criminal-procedure or evidence question.

workflow to review\text{workflow to review}

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

Simplified criminal procedure digital evidence handoff mapSimplified criminal procedure digital evidence handoff mapscope: US federal classroom model | Criminal procedure handoff model | as of 2026-06-24Simplified US federal classroom model; Fourth Amendment doctrine and state rules vary; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.labelrecordlabelitemchainhandoffSource recordrole start r0 in0 out1 reach6Actor labelrole step r1 in1 out1 reach5Event recordrole step r2 in1 out1 reach4Warrant exception labelrole step r3 in1 out1 reach3Evidence itemrole step r4 in1 out1 reach2Custody chainrole step r5 in1 out1 reach1Lawyer judge human reviewrole terminal r6 in1 out0 reach0SCC: scc6:source; scc5:actor; scc4:event; scc3:warrant; scc2:evidence; scc1:custody; scc0:review

Summary

The capstone pattern is source, actor, event, label, evidence item, custody chain, and review handoff.

connected review data\text{connected review data}