Legal Stuff
Witnesses
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Crime Lab
Forensic Vocab
100
These are the 3 exceptions to the warrant requirement.
What are immediate danger to life, danger of evidence being destroyed, and consent.
100
This age person would better remember a suspect's description: a teen, a middle aged person or an elderly person.
What is a teen?
100
These are the 3 goals of crime scene investigation.
What is to recognize, document and collect evidence?
100
This section of a crime lab would process blood evidence.
What is the biology section?
100
This is the document that formally charges a person with a crime.
What is an indictment?
200
These are the 3 levels of crimes in NC.
What are infractions, misdemeanors and felonies?
200
These 3 people can affect a witness' recall of events.
Who are investigators, other witnesses and the media?
200
This is the application of science to the law.
What is forensic science?
200
This section of a crime lab would process a burned piece of carpet.
What is the arson section?
200
This means a reasonable person would believe a crime had been committed and that the suspect did it.
What is probable cause?
300
This is the correct order of conviction, arrest, trial, arraignment, indictment, sentencing.
What is indictment, arrest, arraignment, trial, conviction, sentencing?
300
A person of this race would best remember a Caucasian suspect.
What is a Caucasian person?
300
This is what the crime scene where the first criminal act actually took place is called.
What is primary crime scene?
300
This section of a crime lad would process a footprint.
What is the physical sciences section?
300
This is when the defendant enters a plea of guilty or not guilty.
What is arraignment?
400
These are the 3 thing the district attorney tries to prove at trial.
What are means, motive and opportunity?
400
This is the least reliable form of evidence.
What is eyewitness testimony?
400
Thsi must be included in all close-up photographs of evidence.
What is a ruler?
400
This section of a crime lab would process an unknown white powder.
What is the toxicology section?
400
This term refers to all of the evidence against a defendant.
What is discovery?
500
This is the type of crime that can be punished by more than one year in jail.
What is a felony?
500
This is the percentage of people who have been cleared of a crime by DNA evidence who were originally convicted by eyewitness identification.
What is 75%
500
This is Mrs. Smith's favorite singer.
Who is John Denver?
500
This section of a crime lab would process blood spatter evidence.
What is the physical sciences section?
500
This means that a fact proves an essential element in a case.
What is probative?