Anthropology 2235A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Amelogenin, Stata, Combined Dna Index System
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Week 6: expert witness testimony & probative interpretations. Procedures & methods for forensic casework: everything begins @ crime scene. In canada, only provinces with coroner system does an expert witness. 2: theory: well tested hypothesis, hypothesis = good idea (evolution and climate change is a hypothesis, have to be cautious. Canada: r v mohan: four criteria in which admission of expert evidence, relevance (to science, cost benefit analysis) R v woodcock (woodcock"s association to the crime scene: necessity, absence of any exclusionary rule, properly qualified. Issues whenever science is used in court: admissibility, chain of custody, relative weight given submitted evidence, qualitative vs quantitative weight. In britain: gives strength of relationship instead of stats of relationship in mtdna: qualitative: fingerprints, hair, teeth, britain mtdna, quantatative: serology, bone, ndna, mtdna (except britain) 4: qualitative: evaluate matches without probabilistic statements. Sample & population: samples vary, in anthropology it could be a reference sample of cadavers or use of.