LEGAL ST 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eyewitness Identification, Forensic Dentistry, Forensic Pathology
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Chapter 5: physical evidence and the crime scene. The roles of physical evidence in the criminal invesigaion process: For example, the roles that physical evidence played in the simpson invesigaion (chapter intro) Primary vs secondary crime scene: primary crime scene: The place where the crime actually occurred: secondary crime scene: An area where signiicant evidence relaing to a crime is found but not necessarily where the crime occurred. Job 2: ensure oicer, vicim, ciizen safety. Job 3: determine who is in charge. Job 4: collect evidence: separate witnesses, why, search warrant, neighborhood canvass, locard"s exchange principle. Job 5: protect and document evidence: case-in-point 5. 2 p. 103. The interpretaion of the results can also be problemaic: for example, what exactly is a match . Dna is the geneic building block of all living things and is found in virtually every cell of the human body.
