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Public official who institutes legal proceedings against someone
Prosecutor
someone who has a criminal charge against them
defendant
What is realtively easty to recover from the cigarette butts found on a scene?
DNA
What do CSI's do at a crime scene?
document in detail, collect physical evidence, record data and take photos
who was the director of the world's first forensic laboratory?
Dr. Edmond Locard
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
True or False: Crime Scene investigators clean the crime scene at the end.
Name two types of evidence
Biological and physical
Reason for separating witnesses at the scene
to keep them from talking to each other
What is used by investigators to do facial recognition
algorithms
what is considered direct evidence but is not physical or biological
confessions
The patterns for searching a scene should be?
systematic
what do CSI's do before handling different pieces of evidence?
change gloves
When determining the who committed the crime, what are developing?
a profile
What instrument do you use to establish a directional baseline.
compass