case files
Detective's documented investigations
Case files are the collected documents, records, and evidence pertaining to a particular legal matter, investigation, or administrative proceeding.
Police detectives, lawyers, and social workers all maintain case files on the matters they handle.
The term suggests organized documentation that can be referenced, updated, and eventually closed when a matter is resolved.
The detective pulled the case files on similar unsolved murders from the previous decade.
- judgmentsFormed opinions or decisions
- affidavitsSworn written legal statements
- crime sceneLocation of an offense
- transcriptsWritten versions of speech
- motionsActions or formal proposals
unsolved murder · subpoena · dossier · paper trail · rulings · discovery · pathology report · evidence · evidence room · pleadings · prosecutor · forensic evidence · verdicts · litigation · docket · legal documents · medical history · manila
- public safetypolice, 911, ambulance, fire department, firefighters
- court recordscourt documents, court transcripts, court records, court cases, court record
- police recordspolice records, arrest report, police reports, incident report, arrest records
- labor arbitrationarbitrators, binding decisions, labor disputes, wage disputes, employment disputes
- criminal investigationsinvestigations, crime scene, crime scenes, crime scene investigation, crime scene analysis
- mysteryclue, detective, suspect, clues, sleuth
case filesoral testimony
Evidence delivered by speaking
witness testimony · verbal accounts · word of mouth · hearsay · anecdotal evidence
case fileswitness statements
Formal accounts from observers
firsthand accounts · eyewitness testimony · sworn testimony · deposition · circumstantial evidence