Identification

Obtaining my undergraduate degree was one of the highlights of my life. By day I attended classes, studied hard and completed my student observation and student teaching requirements. On nights and weekends I worked at a country club working as many shifts as I could to pay for my courses at St. John Fisher College. When I graduated in the spring of 2005 with my Bachelor of Arts in History and my initial teaching certification in hand, I was excited to teach and challenge the young minds of our…

Should the security of our nation outweigh individual freedoms? America wants to use all of its resources to help fight the war on terror, and has all rights to do so. The security of our nation being a issue because our leaders want to keep america safe and free from foreign invasion. Because of the 9/11 attacks on american soil, we have taken all measures to prevent another incident from occurring by using simple, accessible powers the government has. The government wants to closely watch…

For instance, the discrepancies in the male victim’s identification points out a major flaw in eye witness testimonies. This cause of error is inaccuracies presented by external factors such as bad eyesight, duration of observation of the perpetrator and circumstances of the location. The bad eyesight of a witness as seen in the case study can be the cause for uncertainty in the identification process. Factors of the crime could also present issues. If the witness only saw…

On January 18th, 1991, in downtown Los Angeles, there were a shooting drive-by killing and a 16-year-old Francisco Carrillo was accused of being the murderer of killing the 41-year-old Donald Sarpy. Twenty years later, Carrillo was released due to the withdrawal of five out of six witnesses in the retrial (Daily Mail Reporter, 2011). The victim’s son, who is also one of the six witnesses, revealed that he could not detect definitely whether the individual in the car was Carrillo or not since…

Identification of unknown organisms is useful in a wide variety of settings; from clinical diagnostics to environmental monitoring (1). Species of bacteria can differ fundamentally in aspects ranging from morphology to metabolism. Exploiting these differences can allow for identification of unknown organisms. Gross morphological characterizations are crude, and better replaced by more accurate and specific tests. At a fundamental level, tests such as the Gram stain divide bacteria in to two…

[TJC], 2016). The first goal of patient safety is patient identification correctly (TJC, 2016). Misidentification of patients are the root causes of many never events. Patient identification is the most crucial goal of improving safety. In my facility, we use name and date of birth for resident identification by looking at the chart, however, resident identification bracelet is not in use. I think it is most important to use identification bracelet, which prevents serious adverse events related…

This article, written by Rose and Beck (2016), examine the accuracy of eyewitness identification and find out the physical distance from the crime which they witnessed as well as the length of time between witnessing the crime and successfully identify the perpetrator. Rose and Beck have found out that some researches have argued that false memory and advise can influence the result in people giving testimony about the crimes they have not eyewitnesses. Therefore, the primary aim of this study…

Toolmark identification is defined as the identification of any toolmark as having come from a specific tool. Toolmark comparison of marks from a tire punctured with a knife. A toolmark is classified as any impression, cut, gouge, or abrasion caused by a tool coming in contact with a softer object. A toolmark is defined as the impression left by the contact of a tool (or a similar object) onto a surface. When the tool or object contacts the surface with sufficient force to create an indentation,…

In one particular case, State v. Henderson (2011), James Womble witnessed the shooting of Rodney Harper. On January 1st, 2003, Harper and Womble were together at a friend’s apartment. Two men forcefully entered, one of which was George Clark, whom Womble knew. Clark and Harper stepped into another room while the other man held a gun to Womble, making sure he did not follow them. The ensuing argument in the other room resulted in Harper being shot by Clark, who then threatened Womble. The…

Wrongful Conviction On the morning of August 10, 1984, Deborah Sykes was brutally stabbed, sexually assaulted, and eventually killed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The man convicted for her murder was Darryl Hunt, a 19 year old boy that would go on to spend 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Hunt was convicted based on eye-witness testimony and informants, but was later exonerated based on DNA evidence that matched a man that was caught just a few months after the murder took…