Questioned document examination

Introduction I am the information security specialist for a company that develops software X. Software X is the leading operating system in mobile devices. Unfortunately, our company believes Mr. McBride, a former employee stole product X source code for financial gain. As such, I have been tasked with leading the forensic investigation in this matter. Analysis Interview During an investigation is imperative that potential witnesses are questioned to gather essential information needed in the investigation (Swanson, Chamelin, & Territo, 2016). To protect the interest of this company it is imperative that the following individuals be interviewed: • Maria. Her name was written on a white notepad so that makes her a key individual. • Mr. Jenkins. Key individual that’s directly related to this investigation • Mr. McBride’s Supervisor. • Co-workers. Narrative Description of Interview Pre-Interview Phase. Prior to any interview, it is vital that all employees bound to be interview, sign a form stating that they are aware that this “matter is under criminal investigation and the employee is subject to prosecution” (Hoffman, 2005, p. 2).In order to protect the organization, it is that…

Forensic Science is the appliance of chemistry to the findings of crime. It includes firearm, forensic psychiatry, questioned document examination, criminal law, identification, photography as well as crime scene processing. They judge things like hair, body fluids, bullets, shoe prints, fingerprints, drugs and plant materials. Their work is not only bound to crimes against somebody, such as homicide, theft, or fraud. Food poisoning, environmental pollution, misuse of unsafe chemicals, and…

Evidence Interpretation Over the years, there have been several cases that have been resolved with a false guilty plea or cases where a guilty party was not convicted of a crime. There are various elements that play a role in solving cases; evidence is a one of these key elements. Many factors can determine if the evidence submitted before a court of law is accurate such as how the evidence is collected, if proper protocell was followed before the laboratory’s handling of the evidence, and if…

science, the most crucial of the three, deals with the link between medical science and legal issues. Medical knowledge in a court case is used to resolve insurance claims and suits of medical misconduct especially or determine the cause of injury or death and has the ability to or determine the paternity of a child. This branch includes forensic pathologists or medical examiners who are responsible performing autopsies on bodies post-mortem to determine the cause of death. Forensic…

Chain of custody is defined by Saferstein (2015), as a list of all the people who have handled or examined the piece of evidence. The chain of custody refers to the chronological documentation, that shows the names of the people who have examined or handled the evidence (Saferstein, 2015). According to Saferstein (2015), obeying the standard procedures of evidence treatment and examination, it can promise that the evidence can endure any questioning by the defence in a courtroom. Houck & Siegel…

comparison, identification, and interpretation of physical evidence. Digital and multimedia science, which includes locating, identifying, and preserving digital evidence, which can be found on things like computer hard drives, cameras, cd’s, and email systems. Engineering science, which is the investigation of accidents involving crime, civil, or regulatory issues. General, which are the areas of forensics that don’t fit into any other category. Jurisprudence, which is the philosophy and…

Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case is a case that dramatically influenced forensic science. On the night of February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin a 17 year old high school student was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, The United States. Gorge Zimmerman, who was a 28 year old man of mixed race (Hispanic) was the coordinator for a neighborhood watch for the gated community where Trayvon Martin was living temporarily (Gray 2012). The 17 year old Trayvon Martin was unarmed during…

The Innocence Project explains that “he was convicted based on the testimony of forensic experts who said they had determined that the fire was intentionally set and a jailhouse informant who said Willingham had confessed to him” (Case summary section, para. 2). He was later sentenced to death. Years later, his attorneys sent a report from a nationally recognized arson expert, stating that the conviction was based on false forensic analysis. “Documents obtained by the Innocence Project show that…

not mean they don’t have to scan/assemble loose paper into EPIC. There are three steps to ensure the quality and efficiency of indexing and scanning forms and loose records into EPIC. The first step is to scan these loose forms. Most of the hospital scans their own records for the most part but for example HIM scans the ERs records and place them in EPIC. On February 9th, Devonn and I got a chance to scan records from OB and a few inpatients. We went to a pretty much vacant filing cabinet and…

Isolate Prices Project My program runs as follows first displays the local start time, which would be the current time and would work as almost like the starting point of stopwatch. We than have a vector which is where all the input files information is stored. After, the vector is created we have to fill the vector with the information from the input files. Then we read all the data from the vector and output into 2 files. Lastly the end time is display with the elapsed time. I created a Stock…