Clue Me In
This establishes a fact and includes confessions and eyewitness accounts.
What is direct evidence?
This judicial order gives law enforcement legal authority to search a specific person or location for evidence.
What is a search warrant?
This person may give an opinion in court because of specialized knowledge, education, training, skill, or experience.
What is an expert witness?
This forensic specialist examines the body and helps determine the cause and circumstances of death.
What is a forensic pathologist?
This includes blood found at a crime scene is determined to be type AB+.
What is class evidence?
vidence that is allowed to be presented and considered in court is described by this term.
What is admissible?
A judge asks whether a new scientific technique has gained general acceptance in the relevant scientific community. Which standard is being considered?
What is the Frye standard?
This specialty would examine pollen recovered from a suspect's clothing may connect the suspect to a location.
What is a forensic botanist/palynologist?
A surveillance camera records a masked person leaving a crime scene. Investigators also find a size 12 shoe print matching the suspect's shoe size. Classify each piece of evidence as direct or circumstantial.
Video = direct; Shoe Print = circumstantial
An investigator collects evidence and transfers it to a laboratory technician but fails to document the transfer. This procedure has been compromised.
What is the chain of custody?
A judge examines whether a forensic technique can be tested, has undergone peer review, and has a known error rate. They would be using this standard.
What is the Daubert standard?
Investigators recover blood and other body fluids from a crime scene. This forensic specialist would identify and analyze those fluids.
What is a forensic serologist?
Investigators recover a fingerprint from a window that matches a suspect. Is the fingerprint direct or circumstantial evidence? Individual or class?
What is circumstantial & individual evidence?
Investigators believe evidence of a crime is located inside a suspect's home. Before a judge issues a search warrant, investigators must establish this reasonable basis for believing that a crime occurred and that evidence is likely to be found there.
What is probable cause?
This is said when the judge agrees with an objection in court.
What is "sustained"?
Investigators have three problems: unidentified human remains, suspected poison in the body, and insects associated with the remains. Name the forensic specialty best suited to each.
What are forensic anthropologists, toxicologists, and entomologists?
Investigators find half of a torn document at a crime scene. Another piece is recovered from a suspect's home and fits perfectly along the torn edge. Both papers are common printer paper. Is this individual or class?
What is individual?
Investigators collect evidence during a search that violates a person's constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Which amendment creates the legal issue with how this evidence was obtained?
What is the fourth amendment?
FIANL JEOPARDY: Investigators recover a fingerprint match from a crime scene. An expert witness is called by prosecutors to testify about a new technique used to analyze the print. Before allowing the testimony, the judge considers whether the technique can be tested, whether it has been peer reviewed, and its known error rate. After the scientist testifies for the prosecution, the defense attorney begins questioning the scientist.
The fingerprint is classified as this type of evidence.
The judge is applying this standard.
This is what you call the defense attorney's questioning.
What is individual class evidence?
What is the Daubert standard?
What is a cross-examination?
These experts are needed after a serious fatal car crash to recover suspiciously deleted data from a vehicle’s computer system, determine whether mechanical failure contributed to the crash, and to help identify an unknown victim using dental records.
What are forensic computer scientists, engineers, and odontologists?