Forensics Winter Semester Final 2023

A fact is a statement or information that can be verified

• true

• false

What we perceive about persons depends, in part, on their mannerisms and gestures

• true

• false

Through our senses of sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch, we gather information every single moment about what is around us

• true

• false

Our emotional state influences our ability to see and hear what is happening around us

• true

• false

The first task of forensic scientists is to find, examine, and evaluate evidence from a crime scene

• true

• false

One of the most important tools to the forensic investigator is the ability to:

• observe, interpret, and report observations clearly

• observe assumptions clearly

• report assumptions clearly

• none of these choices

Perception:

• is faulty

• is not always accurrate

• does not always reflect reality

• all of these choices

Criminal investigations depend on the observation skills of all involved. Those involved include

• police investigators

• forensic scientists

• witnesses

• all of these choices

The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law was created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufield in 1992. Its purpose was to reexamine post-conviction cases (individuals convicted and in prison) using

• DNA evidence to provide conclusive proof of innocence

• DNA evidence to provide conclusive proof of guilt

• eyewitness accounts to provide conclusive proof of innocence

• circumstantial evidence to provide conclusive proof of innocence

Ballistic experts work with

• textiles and threads

• human bodies and drugs

• bullets and firearms

• vehicles and tools