Crime Scene Investigation Skills
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AFIS stands for what?
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Automated Fingerprint Identification System
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The number one mistake officers make in processing fingerprints with powders is?
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Over-processing fingerprints
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The types of prints taken of persons with reason to be at the crime scene location, are referred to as...?
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Elimination fingerprints.
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Fingerprints CAN NOT indicate the following:
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Age, race, gender.
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What type of characteristics include features that place a item into a specific category, such as a screwdriver?
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Class
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Integrity of evidence refers to the requirement that any item introduced in court must be in the same condition as when it was found at the crime scene. This is documented by the Chain of evidence, and is also referred to as the .........?
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Chain of custody
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DNA profiling can be done using ....
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Cells from almost any part of the body.
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Hair analysis CANNOT reveal what?
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The presence of drugs or poisons and consumer chemicals.
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A genetic fingerprint is obtained from a suspect's what?
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DNA
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A way of folding paper so that evidence does not fall out is referred to as a ...
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Druggist fold
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This type of evidence forms a substantive part of the case or has a legitimate and effective influence on the decision of the case.
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Material
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This type of evidence has been properly collected, identified, filed and continuously secured is called ....
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Competent evidence
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This method is NOT recommended to develop latent fingerprints on unpainted wood, paper, cardboard or other absorbent surfaces.
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powders
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Two basic requirements for obtaining information are to do what?
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Listen and observe.
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An example of a very DIRECT QUESTION.
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"Did you assault George Smith at 5th and Main last night?
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The best place to interrogate a suspect is usually?
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At the police department.
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To improve communications, you should do what?
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Prepare your questions and tactics
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This is NOT accepted by the court's as evidence.
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Polygraph
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What method may be used to help a victim or witness recall an incident.
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Hypnosis
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To be valid in court, a confession must be always be what?
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Voluntary
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The Bruton Rule, which resulted from Bruton V. United States (1968), a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross examine witnesses against him is violated if ....
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A confessing defendant's statement is used against a non confessing defendant at their joint trial.
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This type of admission occurs when one suspect makes a statement in a second suspect's presence and under circumstances where it would be logical to expect the second suspect to make a denial if the statement falsely implicated him, but he does not deny the allegations.
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Adoptive admission
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NOT one of the precautions for undercover agents.
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Use drugs and alcohol to get in with the gang.
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Force necessary to overcome resistance offered during an arrest is referred to as...
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Reasonable force.
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Live lineups generally contain how many individuals?
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Five to ten individuals.
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In WADE, the courts said that a suspect must be informed of his or her rights to have a lawyer present during what type of process?
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Line ups
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Wiretaps are legal when there is probable cause and they are...
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Authorized by a court.
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This 1985 court case eliminated the "fleeing felon rule," banning law enforcement officers from shooting to kill a fleeing felon unless an imminent danger of life exists.
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Tennessee v. Garner
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The requirement of providing counsel to a suspect in a lineup that occurs after indictment or arraignment is known as the ...
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Wade-Gilbert Rule.
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In United States v. Knotts (1983) the Court ruled that installing and monitoring a bird dog tracking device in a public location...
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Does not violate a suspect's rights.
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Florida v. Riley (1989) approved the warrantless aerial surveillance noting that ......
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There should be no reasonable expectation of privacy from the skies above.
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In Saucier v. Katz (2001) the Supreme Court held that the guide for use of excessive force is....
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That the force is objectively reasonable under Fourth Amendment excessive force analysis.
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A dead body that sinks in water usually remains immersed for...
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8 to 10 days in warm water and 3 to 4 weeks in cold water.
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Deaths are classified by type as:
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Natural, accidental non criminal, suicide, homicide (non criminal and criminal).
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Non criminal homicide includes...
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Justifiable homicide
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Premeditation would be a requirement in which case?
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First degree murder
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In some cases, the deceased hand is closed tightly around an object or weapon at the time of death. The condition does not disappear as rigor mortis does, and it cannot be induced by another person. It is referred to as a ........
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Cadaveric Spasm
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What type of murder usually includes the killing of three or more separate victims, with a "cooling off"period between the killings?
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Serial murder
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The study of poisons can determine the type of poison, the amount ingested, the approximate time ingested and the effect on the body. This field is referred to as what?
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Toxicology.
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This poison, known as the King of Poisons and the Poison of Kings is called what?
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Arsenic
