CSI Done Right
This is the first thing you should do as a responding officer at a crime scene.
What is providing medical attention to those in need?
The concept of "general acceptance" of scientific evidence is drawn from this U.S. court case.
Fingerprints
What is AFIS?
The father of criminal identification, he created a system of body measurements named after himself.
Who is Alphonse Bertillon?
This type of witness is allowed to state their opinion during testimony, provided they have expertise in that area.
What is an expert witness?
The proper packaging material for biological evidence.
What is a paper bag?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects a citizens right against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
DNA
What is CODIS?
He has a principle named after him that states that material is transferred whenever a person comes in contact with another person/object.
Who is Edmond Locard?
This is the unit of a crime lab that would analyze blood for the presence of drugs and poisons.
What is the toxicology unit?
In digital photography, light is recorded on one of millions of these.
What is a pixel?
This court case dealt with the legality of a 4-day search at a crime scene following a police-involved homicide.
What is Mincey vs. Arizona?
Bullets and cartridge cases
What is NIBIN?
He developed the method of fingerprinting for criminal identification.
Who is Francis Galton?
This is the section of AAFS you would below to if you perform handwriting comparisons.
What is Questioned Documents?
This search pattern when looking for evidence works well for large crimes when there are plenty of investigators available.
What is a zone search pattern?
The outcome of this case made the judge a "gatekeeper" in determining whether evidence was admissible.
What is Daubert vs. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals?
Automotive paints
What is PDQ?
He is the father of forensic toxicology, testing different poisons on animals.
Who is Mathieu Orfila?
This type of evidence can only be associated with a group and not a single source.
What is class evidence?
This is the name for uncontaminated surface materials that are collected to ensure that the surface does not interfere with lab tests.
What is a substrate control?
This court case was the result of a physician who administered a lethal amount of a paralytic agent to his wife.
What is Coppolino vs. State?
What is SICAR?
Our word "sheriff" gets it origins in this two-word Old British phrase.
What is a shire reeve?
The nickname given to the individual who murdered women in LA in the 1980's and then reemerged in the early 2000's.
Who is the Grim Sleeper?