Forensic Test

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What type of evidence puts most people in jail?

indirect evidence

Evidence that is linked to a unique source

Individual evidence

A crime scene investigator packages and records all data for an evidence sample and then gives the sample to the delivery person. The delivery person takes the sample directly to the evidence room where the officer there records his own information. What protocol has been broken?

Chain of Custody

Based on suggestion, rather than personal knowledge or observation

Circumstantial evidence

The forensic problem that occurs if two bloody items are packaged together

Cross contamination

What court case helped set a federal rule of evidence, that all scientific procedures presented in court must be peer-reviewed and the rate of error discussed?

Daughbert Ruling

In which court decision was it realized there needed to be a standard for admitting scientific evidence?

Frye Standard

Where is it found legally that the only type of witness that can give opinions is an expert witness?

Federal Rule Number 702

Implies a fact with necassarily proving it

Indirect evidence

The relevance and ability of evidence to prove a crime is its

Probative value

A type of sample that is collected from a suspect to be compared to evidence from the crime scene

Reference Control

A murder suspect is found innocent of killing his wife. Two years later, police officers find her DNA from blood in the trunk of his car The prosecution can proceed with a new case

false

Any important eyewitness is allowed to repeat in court what someone else told him.

false

The owner of a house agrees to let his home be searched for a specific gun, but nothing is found. Two months later, police search his home without a warrant and find the gun. The gun cannot be admitted because it was an illegal search.

false

When a forensic scientist analyzes evidence from any case, the case is very likely to be tried in court

false

What type of control is collected from an area close to where evidence is to ensure that the reaction comes from the evidence

substrate control

Testimonial evidence is not reliable if

the witness has already identified another suspect

The jury is very confused on the testing of some DNA evidence. The prosecution could blame this on the direct evidence presented by the expert witness

true

To calculate the chances of an event, you multiply the frequencies the event occurs in a population

true


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