Crime scene

There is a four-step interview process conducted at the scene of a crime with a witness. The first step is general basic questions such as "what happened?" or "what did you see or hear?" When the witness is answering these questions, the should be able to do so without interruption. Meaning, there should be no notes, audio recordings, or visual recordings at this time because notes slow down or interrupt a witness's concentration, and recordings also intimidate most witnesses and will not give a…

in Los Angeles. Nicole had been stabbed in the neck and in the head. She also had some self-defense wounds. Nicole and Ron had been dead for at least two hours when the police showed up to the home. One important piece of evidence found at the crime scene was a bloody glove. Once detectives found the glove they went to O.J. Simpsons home to tell him his ex-wife had died. Once the detectives arrived at his home they found blood spatters on the inside of his Ford bronco. O.J. Simpson wasn’t home…

Physical evidence that is left behind in a crime scene plays and important role in reconstructing the various events that took place during the crime . Crime scene reconstruction depends upon joint efforts of law enforcement personnels, medical examiners and criminologist to find the physical evidence and to understand the events that surrounds the occurrence of a crime. If there is a bloodstains then the location and the distribution of the blood stain along with the spatters maybe useful in…

Jarryl was murdered. The mens rea was the pulling of the trigger by the suspects knowing that it will result in the death of Jarryl. The crown would present video surveillance from multiple angles showing the 4 men committing the crime and fleeing from the crime scene, as well as witnesses. I think the defence would state that they were under peer pressure or because they were under the influence of drugs and alcohol, also motive was not stated and is not known so this could support the accused…

.1. Introduction: Forensic Science: Forensic may be defined as the Application of Science to law. This is the application of Scientific methods to decide questions arising from crime or litigation. In forensic science, the DNA properties are used in investigation to include a suspect or exclude a suspect from a criminal case like rape, assault even from small drops of semen, blood, or small pieces of hair, nails, etc. In forensic analysis certain regions of DNA are analyzed and respective…

II. Houston Police Department (HPD) Crime Lab A. Tainted DNA Evidence: The Beginning In Houston, according to a report by the Houston Police Department's crime laboratory, the DNA recovered in a 1998 rape case convicted 16-year-old Josiah Elijah Sutton of aggravated sexual assault.6 The report stated that Sutton’s DNA recovered from the crime scene had matched and the probability of such a match was 1 out of 694,000 African-American males from the population of the United States.7 The jury…

Williamson. Dennis and Ron had met outside of a liquor store over the fact that they both had a shared hobby and interest for guitar playing. This "friendship" quickly turned into drinking buddies, road trip buddies, and soon they were partners in crime. However Dennis seemed to straighten up and distance himself from Ron because he understood that Ron had some issues and Dennis didn't want to be well known in the criminal system more so then what the two of them already were. 2) Denice was the…

A confession is a written or oral formal statement where a suspect admits that they are guilty of a crime, a false confession is admitting to a criminal act that one did not commit. False confessions are usually brought on by coercion, contamination or misclassification. There are three types of false confession; voluntary, persuaded, or compliant. Voluntary confessions are given usually under little police pressure, these confessions are brought on by the persons desire to be noticed(fame),…

book released in 1933 by Edwin Borchard titled “Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice” that made a splash when it was released because it identified sixty-five cases in which an innocent people had been convicted of crimes (Gould and Leo). Eighty years after this book you can only imagine that these numbers have all but increased in number when it comes to false convictions and the vast majority of these could be attributed to false statements and false witness…

Profiling simply defines the use of information from the crime scene to describe the offender’s behaviour while committing the act of crime. (Criminal Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide, p. 6 to 7) Criminal profiling or offender profiling is one of the used techniques in identifying a criminal in several cases besides scouring for physical evidences like…