General CJ
Sufficient reason based upon known facts to believe a crime has been committed or that certain property is connected with a crime.
What is probable cause
The most common form of warrant-less searches. A search warrant or probable cause is not necessary if __________________ is given by someone with proper authority.
What is consent
A minor crime, punishable by a fine or a light jail term of usually less than one year.
What is a misdemeanor
Any location that may be associated with a committed crime is considered a
What is a crime scene
Primary duty of the officer at a crime scene is to
What is secure the scene
an objectively justifiable suspicion that is based on specific facts or circumstances and that justifies stopping and sometimes searching (as by frisking) a person thought to be involved in criminal activity at the time
What is reasonable suspicion
a trial by judge, as opposed to a trial by jury is called this
What is a Bench Trial
The code of laws developed from the Romans and used today in Europe and the United States or any body of law in a nation or state, particularly having to do with individual rights.
WHat are civil laws
Primary responsibility of the crime scene investigator is to identify, collect and ______________evidence
What is preserve
After photographed evidence should be
what is properly documented and tagged
allows an officer to seize, without a warrant, evidence and contraband that are found in plain view during a lawful observation. The doctrine is also regularly used by TSA Federal Government Officers while screening persons and property at U.S. airports.
What is a plain view doctrine
a party's request to a court to dismiss a case because of settlement, voluntary withdrawal, procedural defect or claim is one for which the law provides a remedy.
What is a motion to dismiss
DNA stands for
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid
3 Types of photographs
What are Overall, Mid Range and close up
What type of search is used over a large area?
What is a systematic pattern search (a grid search)
a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence found in connection to the crime.
What is search and seizure
a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
What is a Felony
DNA analysis studies what in the body
What are molecules
Toxicology is the study of what?
What are poisons
fingerprints, palm prints, foot prints are what kind of evidence?
Latent print evidence
a state law that allows a police officer to stop any person without making an arrest based on a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime
What is stop and frisk
A body of law which governs federal and state administrative agencies, as well as the procedures these agencies must follow when making determinations, rulings, and rules. Usually, an administrative agency's purpose is to protect the public at large and ensure the public's safety.
What is administrative law
Blood, body fluids, hair and other tissues are what kind of evidence?
What are Biological evidence
This is performed immediately upon arrival at the scene of a crime by a patrol officer?
What is a Preliminary Investigation
Tiny ridges in the skin of a fingertip are known as _________________ ridges
What are friction ridges