Title: Evidence Storage - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Evidence Storage
Evidence Storage
Computer Forensics in Today's World
Evidence Storage
Forensic Laboratory Accommodation
2.4.4 On-Site Secure Evidence Storage
Establish Secure Storage and Handling
Evidence Storage
Investigative Case Management
Basic case tracking
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A stitch in time saves nine
Teamwork Prep for Data Management
How Long do We Hold this Data?
Labs and tools
Forensic laboratories
Virtual labs
Lab security
Evidence storage
What to Expect from an Expert
10.1 General expectations

Content: Evidence that is placed aside to deal with at a later time usually results in lost or missing evidence or forgetting where items of evidence originated. Handle it as soon as you touch it or you may never see it again. View chapter Purchase book
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Teamwork Prep for Data Management
Ann D. Zeigler, Ernesto F. Rojas, in Preserving Electronic Evidence for Trial, 2016
How Long do We Hold this Data? Generally, case evidence is held by the parties until the case and all possible appeals are completed, so that the case (or portions of it) can be retried, if required by the courts. This is the standard practice in evidence storage in the US federal and state court systems. It is possible to reduce the amount of data stored long-term (including posttrial). During the initial negotiation process, and as the discovery process develops, the legal members of the Team can obtain agreements (called stipulations) from the other side about the scope of the actual disputed facts. Those stipulations will reduce the data that will be needed to resolve the dispute. This would include agreements to dispose of information you have saved under the “hold” but which will not be relevant to any of the legal issues identified in the case pleadings, at trial, or on appeal.