evidentiary purpose

"You know, Lindsay, I still have to do this for evidentiary purposes."

Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland police union, claimed the picture could have been taken for legitimate evidentiary purposes.

Normally, acknowledgments only serve evidentiary purposes, but some jurisdictions have made acknowledgement a requirement for recording of instruments.

When a subject is routinely apprehended and has a passport, the passport may be retained by the law enforcement agency for evidentiary purposes.

As the interview progresses, the detective's questions become disturbing, and he takes nude pictures of Vanessa for "evidentiary purposes" before she falls unconscious.

In the legal profession, candling is a colloquilism used to describe the procedure of submitting a party or criminal defendant to a psychological evaluation for evidentiary purposes.

Since he's my witness, and this is for evidentiary purposes as opposed to the normal unbridled fishing expedition, my direct examination of him must conform to the rules of evidence.

The results of the screening device test can only be used to establish reasonable and probable grounds for the approved instrument demand, not for evidentiary purposes on the trial proper in Canada.

"In 1952, it ruled that President Truman acted beyond his Constitutional authority in seizing the steel mills, and in 1974 it held that President Nixon was required to turn over the famous tapes to the courts when they were needed for evidentiary purposes."

This can be important if the system cannot be used to view, copy or access that data - for example the system is locked, or may have booby traps or other intrusion controls, or is needed in a guaranteed untouched form for forensic or evidentiary purposes.