Forensic Science Fall Final 25

Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions is:

• CSI

• Securing the Scene

• Forensics

• Law Enforcement

This uses DNA evidence post-conviction in order to determine the guilt or innocence of an individual

• Inconvenience Project

• Innocence Project

• In Prison Project

• Innovative

Eyewitness accounts tend to be:

• Extremely Accurate

• Reliable

• The best evidence

• Faulty

Material that connects an individual or thing to a group that share similar characteristics:

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• trace evidence

• court evidence

Material that can be related to a single source

• class evidence

• trace evidence

• individual evidence

• court evidence

Biological evidence would include:

• clothing, hats, shoes

• blood, semen, saliva, bones, hair, DNA

• paint chips, broken glass and chemicals

• foot and tire prints

Paint chips, broken glass, and chemicals would be

• Non-evidence

• Biological Evidence

• Physicist Evidence

• Physical Evidence

What is the first step in processing a crime scene?

• Photography

• Rough sketch

• Finished sketch

• Securing the scene

Evidence that (if true) proves an alleged fact, such as an eyewitness account of a crime.

• circumstantial

• direct evidence

• class evidence

• trace evidence

The ability to establish the exact whereabouts of an item of evidence and under whose control it was from its collection at the crime scene to its presentation in the courtroom and everywhere in between is called:

• chain of command

• record of evidence

• chain of custody

• responsibility link