Running head: DNA Evidence and Job Description/Ethics Name Course Tutor Date How would the environment affect this fragile evidence? II. Collecting Fingerprints from a Weapon Describe how you would collect a fingerprint from a weapon that could possibly have touch DNA on it as well. UNIT 9: Job Description for Latent Print Examiner Write a job description for a Latent Print Examiner. Latent Print Examiner Salary scale: Between $ 70‚000 and $
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Johnny J. Stewart Jr. Strayer University SCI 110 Professor Nina Walker July 21‚ 2014 ABSTRACT There are many different reasons why the reliability of eyewitness testimony in the United States judicial system today is all but flawed. There is only one way a witness can identify a suspect who has committed a crime‚ and it is called face to face recognition. Just getting a glimpse‚ bad weather‚ and bad lighting can hinder what a person can truly see. There have
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Scientist extracts DNA to show how it’s useful to solve a crime scene. DNA is the most things to use for solving any crime. Finding DNA is pretty easy to find it can be you’re hair‚ blood‚ or even saliva. Using all that can help investigators to find who the criminal is. Scientist compares the DNA to make sure that their looking for the right person and not to make any mistakes. Scientists extract the DNA when they use blood‚ saliva‚ and other body fluids and tissues. For example the crime investigators
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For twenty-five years‚ the FBI instructed courses involving scientifically flawed information that the FBI examiners mentioned in lab reports and trial testimonies. The FBI mentioned that about ninety percent of microscopic hair analysis reviews contained erroneous statements. In fact‚ FBI agents’ testimonies have contained erroneous statements‚ as well as their submitted lab reports. The National Association of Criminal Justice Defense Lawyers (NACDL) objective was to address statements containing
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This paper explores deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) collection and its relationship to solving crimes. The collection of DNA is one of the most important steps in identifying a suspect in a crime. DNA evidence can either convict or exonerate an individual of a crime. Furthermore‚ the accuracy of forensic identification of evidence has the possibility of leaving biased effects on a juror (Carrell‚ Krauss‚ Liberman‚ Miethe‚ 2008). This paper examines Carrells et al’s research along with three other research
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In order to understand the advantages and disadvantages of DNA profiling one must have a full understanding of what it is. DNA profiling‚ also referred to as DNA fingerprinting or genetic fingerprinting‚ is the process of identifying an individual by analyzing their DNA samples (body tissues‚ body fluids‚ bone‚ hair). This process did not exist until the mid-1980’s when English Scientist‚ Dr. Alec Jeffreys‚ discovered that DNA contains repetitive patterns that vary from individual to individual
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1. The murder of Leanne Tiernan. The case In November 2000 a 16- year old girl‚ Leanne Tiernan went missing following a shopping trip with a best friend in Leeds. What followed was the largest search in West Yorkshire as the police searched around 800 homes and 1500 gardens on the direct route back to her home from the bus stop as well as searches of a three-mile stretch of canals‚ drains and moorlands. Eventually with no witnesses‚ concrete evidence of new leads the case went cold. However in August
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Forensic anthropologists have been under the microscope of whether their ability to identify race is accurate or not. For many centuries‚ there was has been a debate whether race can have biological variations (Ousley‚ Jantz‚ & Freid‚ D‚ 2009‚ p.68). For many centuries there has been a debate whether race can have biological variations (Ousley‚ Jantz‚ & Freid‚ D‚ 2009‚ p.68). Forensic anthropologists are called in to help identify physical characteristics which are then used to determine the physical
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P4 LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) The LIMS system allows laboratories and other industries‚ to insert information in the electronic format that is required in order for it to function for it to function and generate the working system. This allows other users and participants to insert relevant data in mandatory fields‚ this could be things such as name‚ date of birth‚ ethnicity‚ medical history etc. this is placed in the system for organisation. LIMS is also known to be an
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Friday‚ December 14‚ 2012 I have been conducting some research regarding the topic of donation money and where it really goes with the Canadian Cancer Society‚ and I have found some information that is quite alarming. The Canadian Cancer Society is stuck in a brutal cycle‚ advertising to make money and spending that money to continue advertising; their purpose is forgotten‚ research money for cancer. You spend over half of the money on ads and programs‚ and this has to end. You spend about
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