Being a Witness/Memory and Attention
_______ is information that is remembered unconsciously and effortlessly.
Implicit memory
In 1900 Karl Landsteiner was the first to discover human _______ groups and was awarded the Nobel prize for his work in 1930.
Blood groups
What type of evidence is collected at a crime scene?
Blood, hair fibers, body fluids, and fingernails
When was the Innocence Project founded?
It was founded in 1992
Reading a recipe and preparing a meal is an example of _________
Alternating attention - the ability to alternate back and fourth between
When was the FBI crime laboratory created?
1932
What are the goals for the collection of evidence?
To help establish what happened by using crime scene reconstruction. To identify the person who did it. To preserve the evidence for analysis and collect it in a way that will make it stand out in court.
What were the mission statements for the Innocence Project (there are six)?
Exonerate, Improve, Reform, Support, Educate, Build
What percentage of exonerees were wrongly convicted because of eyewitness misidentification?
63% based on the innnocence project exoneries
PCR was first formulated by _______, while he was working at Cetus Corporation in 1983.
Kerry Mullis
When tagging what information needs to be written on the tag?
Police identification number, date/time, description of the item, where the evidence was collected, and who collected it.
How many Innocence Project clients have been exonerated by DNA?
192