Legal Stuff
The types of laws that are established in the Bill of Rights.
What does "evidence must be probative" mean?
Evidence must prove something
not fixed or certain.
What is tentative?
This professional performs autopsies to determine cause of death.
Who is a medical examiner?
A minor crime punishable by a fine and/or time in jail.
What is a misdemeanor?
These laws help keep community members at peace.
What are civil laws?
What does "evidence must be material" mean?
Evidence must be relevant to a crime being committed.
What is the scientific method?
This professional is considered to be a criminologist.
Who is a detective?
Who decides if a person is guilty or not guilty during a trial?
The jury.
A major crime punishable by fine and/or prison
What is a felony?
The informing of rights to an individual being arrested.
What is the Miranda Warning?
The sciencie term for a detective's final conclusion about a case.
What is a claim or theory?
These professionals are considered criminalists.
Who are lab analysists?
A criminalist who is called to give their opinion in a trial.
Who is an expert witness?
These laws are written by and voted on by a legislative body.
What are statutes?
Fingerprints are this type of evidence.
What is individual evidence? (also pattern)
The decision to make up lab results after a sample has been damaged.
What is unethical?
This professional observes bones to identify victims.
Who is a forensic anthropologist?
The person accused of committing a crime.
Who is the defendant?
What is the Daubert Ruling?
What is class evidence?
The application of the scientific method for the purpose of crime investigation.
What is forensics?
This professional may observe and test insect populations at a crime scene.
Who is a forensic entomologist?
Information must fit these two criteria to be considered evidence for a case.
Probative and material