Defense Criminal Investigative Service

DNA interpretation system to prove innocence by reanalyzing mixed DNA evidence. In Pinkins' case, the DNA mixture evidence was found on the victim's clothes and had previously been inconclusive. DNA mixtures have been considerably difficult for the criminal justice system to analyze as technology has not been capable of discerning the different people contributing to a given sample. TrueAllele's parent company Cybergenetics proclaims their program as "a million times stronger and more accurate…

United States interests is the Federal Bureau of Investigations or for short, FBI. Unlike the CIA, the FBI does not directly involve itself in foreign intelligence. The FBI operates under the Department of Justice with a primary focus on federal criminal investigation and domestic intelligence but sometimes there is a cross over and the FBI finds itself involved in terrorist and foreign intelligence. Although the FBI’s headquarters are in Washington, DC, it also has over fifty field offices…

The current standard for death qualification comes from a 1985 case Wainwright v. Witt, where the court ruled jurors with strong feelings either way could substantially impair the process, and can be dismissed from service for cause.(Brooke Butler, and Gary Moran 2007, The Impact of Death Qualification, Belief in a Just World, Legal Authoritarianism, and Locus of Control on Venire persons ' Evaluations of Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances in Capital Trials, Behavioral…

The application process of working as a Police Officer, Correctional Officer and Probation Officer are different due to the fact that each plays an important role in the criminal justice branch. I will be discussing each of the positions and the hiring process of Los Angeles, and Riverside in California. The hiring process for a Police Officer in City Los Angeles as listed on the LAPD website is as follows: The youngest age, you can be to receive an interview is 20 1/2 years old. The applicant…

Once a crime is reported police and other services (if need be) are dispatched to the scene of the crime. In the case of O.J Simpson, once the call was placed to 911 by a neighbour, police were the first responders followed by an ambulance and Forensics Team. (Newton, Ford, & Rutten, 1995). The next step in the investigative process is the collection of evidence. In the Simpson case, there were vital bits of evidence collected at this…

of protection. Some commit crimes to feel alive, to feel that feeling of adventure and danger. And others commit crime to stay alive because they have lost all hope in any other pursuit of life. The real question is, what would you do in these “criminals” shoes. Would you do what they do? Does that justify their actions because most would do…

When such officials fail to keep top secret information in proper safes or leave them unsecured in their offices, homes and on their servers, they can be said to have mishandled the information. In 2008, an investigative report prepared by the Justice Department inspector general indicted the former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez of mishandling top secret information related to the U.S. counterterrorism program. The report noted that such violations can be detrimental…

follows: Department of State, Defense Intelligence Agency, Navy Intelligence, and the Department of Homeland Security. There are nine notable international intelligence agencies to include the United Kingdom (M15), Canada (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), France (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire), Russia (FSB), Germany (Bundesnachrichtendienst), China (International Liaison Department), Israel (General Security Service), Pakistan (Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence),…

Nation’s safety, there are many different national agencies that provide intelligence for homeland security. Some of the National agencies include offices that many have heard of like Customs and Border Patrol, the U.S. Coast Guard or the Secret Service, but there are other National agencies that contribute that most Americans may not know about. These are agencies like the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and the Homeland Security Intelligence Council (Randol, 2010). Outside of the National…

organizations that have been hard at work trying to put a stop to the multibillion dollar industries within multiple countries. The United Nations, an intergovernmental organization, have created their own protocol to suppress and punish the criminal act, called the Trafficking Protocol. They United Nations as a whole recognized…