Forensics A Final Review

The Innocence Project was created to reexamine post-conviction cases (individuals convicted and in prison) using:

• DNA evidence to provide conclusive proof of innocence
• Eyewitness accounts to provide conclusive proof of innocence
• Circumstantial evidence to provide conclusive proof of innocence

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Circumstantial evidence is:

• Direct evidence that can be used to prove a fact
• Indirect evidence that can be used to imply a fact, but does not directly prove it
• Direct or indirect evidence that cannot be used to imply a fact

The first to arrive at a crime scene are usually:

• Crime scene investigators
• Police officers
• Medical examiner
• Detectives

All evidence needs to be properly packaged, sealed, and labeled. Items containing blood or other fluids should be stored in:

• breathable containers such as a paper bag or bindle
• airtight unbreakable containers such as a plastic jar
• opaque hard containers such as a paint can

Whenever two people come in contact with each other, a physical transfer occurs. Who is credited for stating this idea:

• Hans Gross
• August Vollmer
• Henry Fauld
• Edmund Locard

A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime

• Officer
• Suspect
• CSI
• Victim

Which household chemical should be heated in a vapor tent and produces a white print?

• Silver Nitrate
• Ninhydrin
• Cyanoacrylate
• Iodine

The United States keeps an electronic database of all fingerprints collected, this database is called:

• CODIS
• AFIS
• RFLP
• NCIC
• FBIF

Red blood cells are also called:

• Erythrocytes
• Leukocytes
• Thrombocytes

This blood component contains DNA:

• Red Blood Cell
• White blood cell
• Platelet
• Plasma