Digital Imaging
You should always take two images when photo imaging a crime scene. One with and without this.
What is a scale?
This rule of admissibility was based on a "general acceptance" by the scientific community.
What is Frye?
These can only replicate by invading host cells.
What are viruses?
This is a document that memorializes the transfer of evidence from one party to another.
What is the chain of custody?
This is the most fatal of the plagues.
What is septicemic?
This is when a light sensitive material receives too little light.
What is under exposure?
This is the ruling from the 1970's that governs the admissibility of scientific evidence.
What is the Federal Rules of Evidence 702?
These are the three shapes of bacteria.
What are rod, bacilli and cocci?
This is the difference between a lay and an expert witness.
What is lay witnesses can only testify on what they have experienced?
This is an important characteristic of a good bio-terrorist weapon that has to do with its dissemination.
What is the ability to be aerosolized?
This is the area of acceptable sharpness in an image.
What is depth of field?
Under Daubert, this person has the final say on the admissibility of scientific evidence.
Who is the judge?
This NIH funded initiative aims to use microbiology as a means of personal identification.
What is the human microbiome project?
This is the process where an attorney attempts to weaken a scientists credentials.
What is voir dire?
This bioterrorist weapon has the ability to infect people when ingested, inhaled, through the skin and lungs.
What is anthrax?
This was created to provide leadership to the law enforcement community by developing guidelines for good practices for the use of imaging technologies within the criminal justice system
What is SWGIT?
The Daubert ruling happened in what year?
What is 1993?
Foodborne illness costs the US approximately this much annually.
What is 6.9 billion dollars?
These are the two major types of evidence.
What are real and demonstrative?
Smallpox blankets were distributed to enemies during which war?
What is the French and Indian war?
These three criteria have to be met in order for a photograph to be admissible in court.
What are that the (1) Object pictured must be material or relevant, (2) Photograph must not appeal to the emotions or to prejudice the jury and (3) Photograph must be free from distortion and not misrepresent the scene
These are the two components of relevance.
What are materiality and probativeness?
This disease was pandemic in the 1920's and causes aggressive antisocial behavior.
What is encephalitis lethargica?
This is the name of the man who was a chemist at the police crime lab who testified about tests he never preformed and his reports were filled with rampant fraud and falsification.
Who is Fred Zain?
This food borne illness has the greatest potential as a bioterrorist weapon because of the ability to aerosolize it.
What is botulism?