Crime investigation roles
Someone who interviews witnesses
Who is a detective?
Required search warrants to be obtained
What is Mincey v. Arizona?
Principle that is the basis of the rule that each time a new crime scene is recorded a completely new tape or disc must be used
What is collecting untainted evidence?
Theory states that "every contact leaves a trace."
What is Locard's Principle?
Someone who identifies substances such as drugs, explosives, or flame accelerants
Who is a forensic chemist?
States that in any case involving scientific evaluation of evidence, the court must determine whether the procedures used are generally accepted by the scientific community.
What is the Frye standard?
Stores data on a CCD (charge-coupled device)
What is a digital camera?
Invented the comparison microscope
Who is Calvin Goddard?
Someone who collects blood samples for possible DNA testing
Who is a forensic scientist?
Precedent that allowed judges to decide which scientific evidence could be admissible.
What is Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals?
What is a 3D laser scanner?
Men who invented systems for fingerprint identification
Who are Francis Galton & Sir Edward Henry?
Someone who determines the cause of death of victims
Who is a medical examiner?
Amendment that protects privacy and unreasonable search and seizure of persons or properties
Device that allows for audio commentaries and time stamps, which reduce the time that photographers spend taking notes.
What is a video camera?
Refined process of comparing bullets to make ballistic comparisons
Who is Henry Goddard?
He compared the bullet fired at a butler with ammunition from the butler's own gun.
Someone who reconstructs an explosion or fire
Who is an arson investigator?
Case involving a fire in a furniture store that concluded that a search warrant must be obtained quickly before search can commence
What is Michigan v. Tyler?
Device that can be set at a low angle for creating shadows and revealing details in a tire track impression.
What is an external light source?
French criminologist known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France" who is credited with being the father of forensic science
Who is Edmond Locard?