incriminating evidence
Examples
He is expected to give crucial and incriminating evidence against Shongwe.
For example, confronting the suspect with incriminating evidence may be sufficiently evocative to amount to interrogation because the police are implicitly communicating a question: "How do you explain this?"
Wertheim (1994), p. 210 The defense targeted Crane: police raided his apartment and interviewed people who knew him, trying to find incriminating evidence in order to lessen the effect of his testimony.
Having searched his apartment, they found incriminating evidence and names of accomplices to the operation.
In later seasons, where the targets were usually organized-crime figures or similar, the goal of the mission is often simply to collect incriminating evidence not obtainable by "conventional law-enforcement agencies."
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire pedophile, allegedly trafficked underage girls to Prince Andrew (left) and other high-powered figures in order to gather incriminating evidence against them so that he can use it for blackmail.