ENTM 22820 Chapter 2: Forensics Notes Chapter 2
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Finding how a crime was committed and who committed it. To get into court, items must follow rules of evidence: evidence: court approved information that the trier of fact, usually a jury, is allowed to consider when determining a defendant"s guilt or innocence. Forensic evidence: criminal investigative evidence based on scientific discovery and methodologies, the forensic aspect of it includes the legality and litigation process. Forensic science is used to generate forensic evidence and encompass the crime that was committed. Admissible evidence: must be reliable and relevant to the case, must be assured that the methods are scientifically acceptable and reliable. Helps to prevent evidence being approve that has poor tests or used pseudoscience. Frye standard: requires that new methods be generally acceptable to a significant proportion of the scientific discipline they belong to: use daubert hearings. Judge is referred to as the gatekeeper (of evidence) Inculpatory: include a person as a source to incriminate.
