Forensics Test 1 Review

Anthropometry was used before fingerprints to identify people - fingerprints weren't used until the 1900's by Leavenworth Penitentiary.

• True
• False

People have been using fingerprints for identification for thousands of years, just not in legal cases.

• True
• False

Any evidence collected that is deemed to have been seized illegally becomes inadmissible in court.

• True
• False

Who conducts necessary analyses and comparisons of evidence?

• crime scene investigators
• lead detectives
• jury members
• lab personnel

Pathology reports might include...

• autopsy findings
• cause of death
• autopsy findings and cause of death
• none of these

The ASCLD is responsible for the development of standards a lab could meet to be considered _____.

• accredited
• certified
• reliable
• legal

An ______ might study the development of maggots on a corpse.

• odontologist
• entomologist
• engineer
• anthropologist

The examination of all the evidence available at a scene is known as _____.

• CSI
• criminalistics
• engineering
• reconstrcutionism

Thanks to the _____, the judge is essentially the gatekeeper regarding admission of evidence to a trial.

• Frye rule
• federal government
• Daubert standard
• plea bargaining

Which of the following correctly orders the steps of scene processing?

• Release, document, search, survey/recognize, collect/preserve
• Collect/preserve, release, document, search, survey/recognize
• Survey/recognize, search, document, collect/preserve, release
• Search, document, release, survey/recognize, collect/preserve