FSC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homicide, Livor Mortis, Forensic Pathology
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Generally cheap, quick and easy to use. Swab -> cover in chemicals -> pink = positive: con rmatory tests. More costly and equipment dependant: you have to be careful what limits a certain test employs. The ones on the scene are mainly presumptive tests. Evidence associated only with a group: shoe design, car model, blood type, individual characteristics. Evidence that can be associated to a common source wit an extremely high degree of probability. Failure to exclude samples as being from commons origin . But, with this information, we can"t simply say we have a match . !1: often, we can exclude items being from a common origins, but it gets tricky. Tuesday, january 30, 2018 when we try to make the matches: still an area of debate, examples where we might have individual characteristics: Greater the number of different objects linking an individual to a crime scene greater likelihood of individual"s involvement.
