CSI Basics
Freedom from unreasonable search and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment?
The two main types of fingerprints.
What are latent and patent fingerprints?
Evidence is measured using this method with two fixed points.
Triangulation method.
The required photos needed for a crime scene.
What are overall, mid-range and close-up photos?
A document issued by a judge that allows police to investigate a location.
What is a search warrant?
This type of sketch provdes an overhead view of a sketch.
A bird's eye view
Type of photo used to show how the scene is oriented
What is an Overall photograph?
Locard's principle of exchange states that...
Anything that comes into contact leaves trace evidence
Be On the Lookout
What is North?
Type of photo that depicts the position of evidence in comparison to other items.
What is a Mid-range photograph?
How investigators ensure that evidence has not been tampered with or altered.
What is chain of custody?
Name two important databases used in CSI
NCIC, VCIN, CODIS, IAFIS
Where the numbers or letters used to label evidence collection go.
What is a legend?
What is a close up photo?
Two classes physical of evidence collected at a scene.
Class and Individual evidence.
A control sample is used to...
What are the doors, walls and windows?
The amount of photos needed for one piece of evidence.
What are 6 photos?