What is Criminalistics
Criminalistics is the use of what?
What is scientific knowledge and skill.
Who is responsible for ensuring the scene is secured, preserved, and protected to the best of their ability?
Who is the first officer on the crime scene?
How many manners of death classifications are there?
What is five.
How many main categories of fingerprints are there?
What is 3.
Who is associated with being the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
Who is Sir Conan Doyle.
This form of evidence is the only major avenue of an investigation free of inherent error or bias.
What is physical evidence.
What are the methods to recording the crime scene?
Who is the only one trained to perform the autopsy?
What is forensic pathologist.
What are the 3 main categories of fingerprints?
Arches, loops, whorls.
Who determines a death through maggots?
Who is a forensic entomologist.
This person can determine victim characteristics using anthropological knowledge of humans and skeletal structure.
What is a forensic anthropologist?
This is the gravitational settling of blood which is no longer bring pumped through the body after death, causing a bluish-purple discoloration of the skin.
What is liver mortis.
What type of incision is cut for an internal autopsy?
What is a Y-incision.
This can also be used to help identify a suspect as it has its own DNA.
What are plants.
This microscope is the most frequently used and most versatile microscope found in the crime lab
What is the stereoscopic microscope.
This case rejected the validity of the polygraph?
What is Frye v. United States.
Evidence not handled accurately or promptly becomes what in a court of law?
What is inadmissible.
These can be used to help establish identification on a victim.
What are scars, marks, and tattoos.
A technique for visualizing latent fingerprints by exposing them to iodine vapors uses a process known as what?
What is sublimation.
The iris, retina, and facial scans are types of what form of forensics?
What is forensic biometrics.
This case set a standard for admitting expert witness testimony and ensuring evidence submitted meets scientific standard.
What is Daubert.
This is important to maintain to ensure evidence remains accounted for and handled appropriately.
What is the chain of custody.
This is needed in order to compare sampled.
What is a reference/standard.
What are impressions cause by the transfer of body
perspiration or oils present on the finger ridges on
the surface of an object?
What are invisible (latent) prints.
This case was dismissed because the bloodstains did not match the victims (Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman) and were not identifiable to the suspect in question.
Who is O.J. Simpson