MBB 463 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Murder Of Sherri Rasmussen, Rape Kit, Urease
22 Jul 2020
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Categories of evidence: direct, no reasoning to inference to arrive at a conclusion. Indirect: circumstantial, requires trust and inference, you have to assume something is true to come to that conclusion, ex. I saw that it was raining direct. I went outside and the ground was wet indirect: my friend told me it was raining indirect, you have to trust that your friend is correct. Lets you know if there"s semen present, so you know if you can send it back for further testing: prostate specific antigen (psa, secreted by prostate into seminal fluid, used when sperm is not present. Sherri rasmussen case - 1988: 28 year old sherri rasmussen found head in her apartment, beaten and shot 3 times, bite on forearm swabbed. Loses its follicle, no dna available: usually pushed out when a new hair grows from underneath it, analysis.
