CRIM 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Forensic Pathology, Forensic Toxicology, Kumho Tire
10 Sep 2016
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Forensic science application of science to law. Application of science to those criminal and civil laws that are enforced by police agencies in a cjs . Science is the important bit forensic is just a word applied to law. Taken into lab and given to forensic scientists. Case receipt unit everything accepted from crime scenes, electronically tag evidence. Evidence recovery unit e. g. recover blood from a t shirt, or gunshot residue. Consolidating labs each lab specializes in fewer sciences. Evidence may go to several sections: e. g gun may go to firearms and biology if blood on it. Impartial: e. g. 1. this gun did not fire this bullet, e. g. 2. The blood on coat a matches that of specimen b. Rcmp across canada (6 of these: only handle criminal cases for prosecution. Centre of forensic science, toronto and sault ste. Marie, ontario: all investigative agencies and defense, rarely civil cases.
