Overview of Forensics

A list if all people who came into contact with an item of evidence.

• detectives

• chain of custody

• log

• evidence counter

Properties of evidence that can be attributed to a common source with an extremely high degree of certainty.

• physical evidence

• trace characteristics

• class characteristics

• individual characteristics

evidence, procedures, and equipment presented at trial must be generally accepted by the relevant scientific community

• scientific method

• Frye standard

• individual characteristics

• Locard exchange principle

properties of evidence that can be associated only with a group and never a single source.

• class characteristics

• physical evidence

• biological evidence

• individual evidence

any object that can establish that a crime has been committed or can link a suspect to a victim or crime scene.

• physical evidence

• biological evidence

• contact evidence

• reference sample

when 2 objects come into contact with one another, a cross-transfer of materials occurs.

• Evidence standard

• Frye's Exchange principle

• Locard's exchange principle

• trace principle

The application of science to law

• criinalistics

• Forensics

• Trial

• Crazy

When can forensic science be entered into the court room?

• When the technique is widely accepted

• when it helps the prosecution

• Whenever it is needed

• When the technique is new

A person who has seen something or someone and can communicate these facts is

• an eyewitness

• an personal observer

• a court recorder

• none of these

In order to get a warrant you need to prove

• probably cause

• reasonable doubt

• a crime scene

• none of these