Evidence Collection Review Quiz

What is idea behind Locard's Exchange Principle?

• Every action has an opposite reaction

• Every contact between two objects leaves a trace behind

• Matter cannot be created or destroyed

• All evidence is important

Which of the following are valid types of evidence in court? (choose all that apply)

• Physical evidence

• Theoretical evidence

• Circumstantial evidence

• Demonstrative evidence

Which of the following evidence should be permitted in court? (choose all that apply)

• Polygraph results

• A brand new testing procedure that has never been used before

• Results of a autopsy conducted by a medical examiner

• A psychologists testimony that the defendant shows signs of psychotic behavior

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

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• control evidence

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

material that can be related to a single source

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• control 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

• chain of custody

• record of evidence

What is forensic science?

• the application of evidence to testing

• application or science to the law

• Any legal action that requires a police investigation

The first officer arriving at a crime scene, after providing or obtaining medical assistance for the injured and effecting an arrest of suspects (if possible), should immediately:

• photograph the scene.

• search for evidence.

• make a rough sketch of the scene.

• secure the scene.

small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene

• individual evidence

• class evidence

• direct evidence

• trace evidence

A crime scene sketch is a required part of an investigation.

• True

• False