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What is the first thing you do at the crime scene?
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=See if anyone needs help
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What is the most important question when you have the body?
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=When did they die? (TOD)
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What principle is this? “Wherever he steps, whatever he touches, whatever he leaves, even unconsciously, will serve as a silent witness against him.” |
Locard’s Exchange Principle
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What does identification answer? |
What is it? |
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What is the determination of physical or chemical identity of substance to as near absolute certainty as analytical techniques will permit?
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Identification |
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If scientific, technical, or specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise. What rule is this? |
Rule 702 |
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What does "Daubert" mean? |
Judge is the gate keeper |
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What does "Frye" mean? |
General acceptance |
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What is described by: Subjects a suspect specimen and control specimen to the same tests and examinations for the purpose of determining whether or not they have a common origin? |
Comparison |
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If there is a math problem on the test, what would you use?
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=Multiplication because of probability.
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What is the application of science to those criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies in a criminal justice system? |
Forensic science |
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What are the "known standards" known as? |
The control |
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The controls are Packaged and handled in the same manner as evidence. (True/False)
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True |
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What does this answer? "Are they from the same source"? |
Comparison |
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In comparison, Select properties (are/are not) chosen from suspect and control for comparison. |
are |
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Which lab was organized in 1932 to offer forensic services to all law enforcement agencies? |
FBI |
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What is currently the world’s largest forensic lab, 1 million examinations a year? |
FBI |
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How many crime labs are there? |
350 |
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The _______ job requires accurate record keeping, chain-of-custody documentation, stringent quality control, and data management. |
ForensicScientist
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_______ make sure that the examination is comprehensive, appropriate tests are selected, tests are performed correctly, interpretation of the data is accurate and thorough, the written report is correct and easily understood by a non-scientist, testimony is complete and truthful. |
Forensic Scientist |
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What was the 1923 case in the District of Columbia Circuit Court? |
Frye v. United States |
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What court case Rejected the scientific validity of the lie detector (polygraph)? |
Frye v. United States |
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What court case Became the standard guideline for determining judicial admissibility of scientific examinations? |
Frye v. United States |
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Investigative leads come from what three ways?
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(1)confessions, (2) eyewitness accounts by victims or witnesses, (3) evaluation of physical evidence
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What do these relate to: • Question worthy of investigation• Hypothesis-reasonable explanation• Testing through experimentation• Validated hypothesis suitable as scientific evidence? |
Scientific Method |
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Expert witness should represent the _____, not the prosecution or defense |
evidence |
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What are some of the Federal Crime Laboratories? |
Federal Crime Laboratories• Drug Enforcement Administration• Federal Bureau of Investigation• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives• U. S. Postal Service• Food and Drug Administration• National Fish and Wildlife
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