Worksheet Applying the Daubert Standard to Forensic Evidence Course Name and Number: _____________________________________________________ Student Name: ________________________________________________________________ Instructor Name: ______________________________________________________________ Lab Due Date: ________________________________________________________________ Overview In this lab‚ you acted as a forensic specialist assisting the lead forensics investigator at the Cyber Crimes Division
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be dominated by forensic science. 2. What was Crippen accused of? Why was he accused of this crime? • Crippen was accused of poisoning and dismembering his wife. He was accused of this crime because he was the victim’s husband and she has had affairs before. 3. Why do you think people were so interested in Crippen’s case? • I think people were so interested in the Crippen case because it’s a rare case where the victim was poisoned‚ and then dismembered. 4. Why was forensic science important
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Forensic science is most simply defined as the science that is applied to the law. Criminal cases many times call for the examination of evidence that can tie a suspect or victim to a crime scene or to one another. These physical traces frequently include blood and other bodily fluids‚ hair‚ fibers‚ and even bite marks. Here we will focus our attention to the latter‚ as it applies to the field of forensic science referred to forensic odontology or forensic dentistry. Forensic odontology is
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are typically used in bars‚ nightclubs‚ raves‚ and other gatherings‚ some factors that support the use of these are the setting of raves and nightclubs. 2. What are screening tests? Why are they used? Screening tests are nonspecific and help a forensic scientist identify several particular drugs that the substance is likely to be‚ these tests are used to narrow possibilities and eliminate others. 3. What are color tests? Why are these tests used? Color tests are test that use a chemical reagent
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story of a family’s fight to free their 15-year-old son (Patrick Waring) after he is wrongly accused of rape and jailed for a year. Every Family’s Nightmare critiques the ways the police in WA investigate crime scenes‚ interview suspects and collect forensic evidence‚ and the ways in which the evidence is tested. From the time he was accused of raping a teenage girl on 30 March 2006‚ the Western Australian police were convinced Patrick Waring was guilty. Over the next year‚ the Waring family assembled
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INTRODUCTION • The discipline of forensic odontology involves the application of extensive dental specific knowledge to legal and criminal issues. It focuses primarily on personal identification‚ mass disaster identification‚ age estimation and analysis of bite marks. • The ideal forensic odontologist is a person 1. Who is educated in dentistry‚ has been trained in forensic odontology‚ is engaged in research in the same or related subject and has published papers to his credit 2. Who has been
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than today. In addition to samples taken from a body‚ what other information or evidence could point to poisoning as the cause of death? Coloration of the body or things around the body indicating poison intake. What are the challenges for forensic scientists in identifying poisons? First‚ determining if there was poison involved in the first place‚ and also‚ it would be difficult to have to run so many different tests to see which poison it was.
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match with the handwritings letters. 4. How are stamped signatures different from written signatures? Stamped signatures are stamped and written signatures are written. Critical Thinking Questions 1. Why are questioned documents important in forensic science? What is one example of a situation where a questioned document might be an important part of a criminal case? 2. What are some of the ways that a document examiner might try to match a questioned document to a specific typewriter? What
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BACKGROUND OF THE CASE/ OVERVIEW Sonya Fuentaz‚ an IRS-enrolled agent‚ has been contracted for preparing an annual income tax return for Carlito Alverez. Sonya is a little apprehensive about the engagement because she’s heard rumors that Carlito is a major drug trafficker with roots in Colombia. Sonia visits his home to discuss the details of his return and she’s shocked by the opulence she sees because the house is on 2 acres of land just west of the Intracoastal Waterway in Miami Beach.
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According to Singular’s Pocket Dictionary of Speech-Language Pathology “stuttering is an articulatory or phonatory problem that typically presents in childhood and is characterized by anxiety about the efficacy of spoken communication‚ along with forced‚ involuntary hesitation‚ duplication‚ and protraction of sounds and syllables.” Stuttering can be witnessed in the rate‚ pitch‚ inflection‚ and even facial expressions of a speaker. The cause of this problem is not set in stone‚ which leads to countless
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