Evidence
This is one example of direct evidence.
Toxicology Report, signed ransom note, surveillance film, etc.
The reason that it is important to separate witnesses at a crime scene.
The prevent witnesses from talking to one another.
Correct collection of evidence requires which of the following?
Documenting the location where the evidence was found.
Correct Packaging of Evidence
Maintaining proper Chain of Custody
All of the above
What is all of the above
The prosecution of a criminal case wants to bring in an expert witness to testify and give their expert opinion about the decomposition of human remains. Which of the following is necessary before the witness can testify?
According to the Daubert ruling, the judge will need to rule the expert witness as “admissible.”
A forensic scientist is called to a court of law to provide?
(What is fact, opinion, judgement, reflection)
What is fact?
A confession of a police report is considered what type of evidence?
What is direct evidence?
A crime scene should include all the following except
a scale of distance
a north direction
date and location of crime scene
the type of search pattern that was used
What is the type of search pattern that was used?
An important part of handling evidence uses an "X" to represent the location of small evidence.
What is a bindle?
The Bank of Eastman was robbed last Friday. The first responder secured the scene and immediately began looking and collecting evidence without gloves. When the crime scene investigators arrived, the first responder and C.S.I members immediately opened the packs from the top, breaking the signed seal. Several pieces of evidence were analyzed such as a surveillance film from the bank, a ransom letter that requested $10,000.00, and a set of car keys left by the robber and a hair sample found near the ransom letter. After analyzing the evidence, customers and bank personnel were interviewed by detectives. The bank robber was never found.
Which of the following did the first responder do correctly during the investigation?
What is secured the crime scene?
Our state of mind affects how we observe our surroundings. What mental state is best for observing?
What is relaxed?
This is considered biological evidence.
What is hair?
According to the Chair of Custody, what must be done when working with evidence?
Sealed evidence must be opened at a location other than the sealed/signed edge.
Shoe prints and blood type are an example of this type of evidence.
What is class?
Of the evidence given, which would be considered individual evidence?
car keys, hair sample, ransom letter, eye witnesses
The hair sample
The Innocence Project found that mostly faulty convictions were based on ________?
What is Inaccurate eyewitness accounts?
The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence.
What is the Chain of Custody
Which of the following is NOT a member of the Crime Scene Investigation team?
Police Officer
Judge
Detective
Medical Examiner
What is a judge
This happens if evidence is not properly repackaged and sealed to secure the integrity of the evidence.
What is evidence will be inadmissible in court?
What is completed during, "seeing the scene"?
What is evidence is photographed?
This principle implies all the following fibers can be transferred from one person to another.
What is Locard's Exchange principle.
What best describes the difference between circumstantial evidence and direct evidence?
Direct evidence proves an alleged fact while circumstantial evidence implies a fact
This person is responsible for declaring the cause of death when a homicide occurs.
What is medical examiner?
Following the chain of custody, how should evidence be collected?
Appropriate packaging
Package should be sealed with evidence tape
signature from the collecting officer
seal must never be broken until processing
chain of custody log must always be filled out
This was one problem in the JonBenet Ramsey Investigation.
Teacher Discretion
What is the smallest number of photographs that an investigator will take on one piece of evidence?
What is 9?