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All objects that can establish or disprove whether a crime has been committed, or can link a crime and its victim or its perpetrator
What is physical evidence?
The term for unauthorized personnel being directed off a crime scene
What is escorted?
Photographs of the layout, boundaries, and surrounding area, to establish context
What are overview photographs?
Blood, sweat, or skin cells found on clothes
What is trace evidence?
A record of the possession and location of physical evidence in case of future legal proceedings
What is chain of custody?
The most important condition for crime scene photographs
What is unaltered?
Boundaries of the crime scene, denoted by crime-scene tape, rope, or traffic cones
What are areas where evidence may be located?
The manner in which a detailed search of the crime scene must be conducted for physical evidence
What is systematic?
A container recommended for packaging material with bloodstains
What is a paper bag?
A kind of search restricted at a homocide scene by the Supreme Court in the case of Mincey v. Arizona
What is warrantless?
Crime scene notes written from memory back at the lab
First priority is given to people at a crime scene who need it, while minimizing the disturbance of evidence
What is medical assistance?
Constructed with care and concern for aesthetic appearance, and must be drawn to scale
What is a final sketch?
A secure technique to package small amounts of trace evidence
Packaged and stored in airtight metal cans
A precise record of personnel movements in and out of the scene, starting with the first responding officer
What are crime scene notes?
The person responsible for taking steps to preserve and protect the area to the greatest extent possible, relying on their training to deal with any violent or hazardous circumstances
Who is the first responding officer?
Combines notes and photography at a crime scene
What is videotaping?
How evidence collected at the crime scene must be stored to prevent contamination
What are separate containers?
Material used to compare with physical evidence collected at the crime scene
What is reference/standard?
The most commonly used camera for crime scene photography, which can be film or digital
What is a DSLR?
The three methods for recording a crime scene
What are notes, sketches, and photography?
The search patterns that may be used to search a crime scene for evidence
What are line, grid, spiral, wheel, quadrant?
Before packaging clothes, they must be ____
What is air-dried?
The type of scene in the case of Michigan v. Tyler, where the Supreme Court dealt with search-and-seizure procedures
What is an arson scene?