Forensics SGO Pre-Test

The reason that it is important to separate witnesses at a crime scene is to__.

• Prevent contamination of the evidence

• Prevent fighting among witnesses

• Prevent the witnesses from talking to one another

• Protect them from the perpetrator.

A crime-scene sketch should include all of the following except  ___.

• A scale of distance

• A North direction

• Date and location of crime scene

• The type of search pattern that was used.

The documented and unbroken transfer of evidence is known as ____.

• Frye Standard

• Locard’s Exchange Principle

• Chain of Custody

• Daubert Ruling

Which of the following is completed during “seeing the scene?”

• Evidence is marked

• Evidence is collected

• Evidence is analyzed

• Evidence is photographed

Which of the following evidence is considered to be direct evidence?

• A fingerprint left on a door knob

• A fiber from a suspect’s couch found on the victim’s shirt.

• Blood from a victim found under the fingernails of a suspect.

• A confession in a police report

Which of the following evidence is considered to be biological?

• impressions

• Fingerprints

• Shell Casings

• Hair

If a witness remembers seeing something happen, we can trust that it happened just as they remembered.

• True

• False

Forensic scientists find, examine and evaluate evidence from a crime scene and provide expert testimony in court

• True

• False

The Innocence Project found that mostly faulty convictions were based on ______

• Out of date investigation equipment

• Untrained C.S.I

• Inaccurate eyewitness accounts

• Officers not following the 7 S's of C.S.I

All of the following are ways to improve our observational skills except ____.

• Be sure to look at the entire crime scene

• Observe everything, no matter how big or small.

• When collecting evidence, record only those things that you are sure aree important

• Write down and photograph everything you find.