Section 5.3

Question 1

Main goal of all evidence presented in court is to help prove what?

Answer 1

guilty or not guilty

Question 2

Your court presentation needs to be what?

Answer 2

professional

Question 3

If you want to be taken serious as an investigator you need to look what?

Answer 3

Profesional

Question 4

If you have a brand new way to get evidence off of a flash drive and you present it in court and it is not scientific you may or may not be taken serious. What determines this?

Answer 4

Daubert Standard

Question 5

From a case called Daubert Vs Merrel Pharmaceuticals 1993 this was established?

Answer 5

Daubert Standard

Question 6

There was an evidentiary problem and they had to determine if the scientific evidence was good enough to be presented in court and it went all the way to a Supreme Court and they said what?

Answer 6

They cannot give a fixed rule because they do not know what will be scientific now or in the future.

Question 7

The rule is that who gets to decide if the information will help the trier of fact to understand something about the case?

Answer 7

Judge

Question 8

The trier of fact in most criminal cases is who?

Answer 8

Jury

Question 9

Will the information help the trier of fact (jury) to understand? who decides?

Answer 9

Judge decides

Question 10

Example, trying to introduce a new piece of evidence and the defense says the new technique used is bad. You can go before the judge in private and say that you think the new technique works and give scientific articles. The defense lawyer will get someone to come in and say that it doesn’t. What is the job of the judge?

Answer 10

to determine if it will help the jury to understand or is it unscientific enough that it is doing more harm than good.

Question 11

Eventually we have to do what with the evidence?

Answer 11

Dispose of it

Question 12

Example, we catch someone and they go to court and were found guilty. Can we get rid of the evidence?

Answer 12

What if it is the wrong person?
What if he appeals?
We need to keep it a little longer

Question 13

It is a tough decision to decide when to destroy evidence. It it left up to who to make this decision?

Answer 13

Each department

Question 14

Most departments determine when to destroy evidence by if they have found the person or got a conviction. Based on this they destroy the evidence when?

Answer 14

statue of limitations is up

Question 15

Does every crime have the same statue of limitations?

Answer 15

no and it varies by state

Question 16

TN. Robbery, has a statue of limitations for how many years?

Answer 16

5

Question 17

Is there a statute of limitations for murder?

Answer 17

no

Question 18

When you destroy evidence do you need witnesses and signed affidavits from multiple people?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

One of the first truly scientific things that we have found in the history of policing.

Answer 19

Fingerprints

Question 20

Would a laptop leave a good fingerprint?

Answer 20

Yes

Question 21

What are fingerprints that you cannot see with the naked eye and usually found with dust?

Answer 21

Latent Fingerprints

Question 22

Take a feather duster and a special dust that is fine and it sticks to the fingerprint and you rub it lightly and you have a good fingerprint and then you lift it off and put it on a card. True or False

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Put the fingerprint on a card with tape. Pulling the off is called what?

Answer 23

Lifting

Question 24

Example, turn your computer off and you can see what kind of fingerprints because you are touching the screen?

Answer 24

visible fingerprints

Question 25

Easier to find and record and sometimes you can get a good photo of what type of fingerprints?

Answer 25

visible fingerprints

Question 26

Fingerprints left in a substance.

Answer 26

Plastic

Question 27

Example, fingerprint in chewing gum. It is elastic enough that you could leave your fingerprint in it. True or False

Answer 27

True

Question 28

example, large pools of blood and if it has been there a while you can leave your fingerprint in the blood smear. These are what type of fingerprint?

Answer 28

Plastic fingerprint

Question 29

Fingerprints that are in 3D material and you can push your finger into it are what kind of fingerprints?

Answer 29

Plastic

Question 30

Example, murder of husband in a home with a wife a two kids. You need to get the wife and two kids fingerprints for what reason?

Answer 30

Elimination prints

Question 31

Homeland security and the FBI as well as others come tougher and combined fingerprints into one giant system known as what?

Answer 31

IAFIS

Question 32

TSA Pre-check your fingerprints have been entered into what?

Answer 32

IAFIS

Question 33

If you have a suspect you can compare it to fingerprints on IAFIS and if the database confirms it all you need to do is what?

Answer 33

Human being confirmation

Question 34

Database and computer help locate fingerprints but a human needs to confirm it. True or False

Answer 34

True