Evidence Rules and Concepts
This is defined as the site or sites where a crime has occurred...
Crime Scene
______________ is for the use and enjoyment of the public and is open to the public. ______________ Belongs to an individual and is not open to the public.
Public property and Private property
This is an object that is used to establish the size and original position(s) of evidence and draw attention to relevant objects at a crime scene.
Scale or identifier
___________ is small quantities of material transferred from a victim or suspect to each other or to a crime scene.
Trace evidence
_______________ is the presentation of a possible suspect to a witness for identification, and it occurs at the same time or soon after the incident occurred and near the incident or crime scene.
Showup
This Florida State Statute provides the basic concepts and rules of evidence that may be used in criminal or civil proceeding...
Chapter 90 of Florida Statues
____________ Is a document that details the name, Rank, and agency of each person entering or leaving the scene.
standard camera flashes will project only
9-12 feet
A foreign substance like wet paint, blood, grease, ink, or dirt, transfers and makes readily visible _____________ which form from the friction ridges or corrugated lines on fingers.
Patent print
What are the 2 types of lineups?
-Live lineup
-Photo lineup
What is the difference between evidence and proof?
Evidence is information that is allowed in court while proof is the effect produced by that information.
These two will usually coordinate duties such as evidence collection, securing the scene perimeter, and other assignments...
The supervisor or investigator.
______________ is composing the photograph so that it depicts what you are trying to document.
Photographic framing
What are the 4 types of fingerprints?
-Patent print- A foreign substance like wet paint, blood, grease, ink, or dirt, transfers and makes readily visible. Which form from the friction ridges or corrugated lines on fingers
-Plastic print-is a molded or embedded fingerprint that you can easily see, created by touching an impressionable surface, such as fresh paint, wax, bar of soap, or mud
-Latent prints- Generally invisible to the naked eye, and result's from body residues left behind when the friction ridges of the hands or feet make contact with a surface.
-Elimination prints- allow fingerprint analysts to distinguish between prints belonging to victims, witnesses, or possible suspects
_______________ is the person who conducts the lineup. Ideally, the lineup admin istrator should be independent of the investigation. ___________________is a person who is not participating in the investigation of the criminal offense and is unaware of which person in the lineup is the suspect.
-lineup administrator
-independent administrator
The ________________ recognizes that the need to protect communications within certain relationships is more important than the admissibility of evidence obtained from those communications.
Florida Evidence Code
Your first priority when being the first responding officer to a crime scene is to...
Secure, protect, and preserve the scene to avoid contaminating any evidence.
_____________ supplements your field notes and photographs and helps with report writing.
Crime scene sketches
What are the 4 search patterns?
-Grid
-Spiral
-Strip/Line
-Zone/Quadrant
A photo array should have a minimum of ____ photo graphs, which includes a minimum of _____ filler photographs with only ____ photograph of the suspect.
-Six
-Five
-One
What are the 5 types of evidence mentioned in this lesson?
-Direct evidence
Indirect or circumstantial evidence
-Testimonial evidence
-Physical or real evidence
-Documentary evidence
The size of the crime scene depends on these 3 things......
Type of crime, the type of evidence, and the location of the evidence.
You may also type the 4 things into the electronic device that you will use to sketch or take the photograph:
-Case number
-Location
-Date and time
-Officer's name
List at least 4 of the 7 Types of evidence...
-Trace evidence
-Biological evidence
-Impression evidence
-Firearms evidence
-Electronic evidence
-Chemistry or toxicological evidence
-Questioned documents evidence
_________________occurs when the independent administrator presents a group of photographs to the victim or eyewitness all at once and at the same time. ____________________ occurs when an independent administrator presents individual photographs to the victim or eyewitness one at a time.
-Simultaneous presentation
-Sequential presentation