Automated Fingerprint Identification System
AFIS stands for what?
Over-processing fingerprints
The number one mistake officers make in processing fingerprints with powders is?
Elimination fingerprints.
The types of prints taken of persons with reason to be at the crime scene location, are referred to as...?
Age, race, gender.
Fingerprints CAN NOT indicate the following:
Class
What type of characteristics include features that place a item into a specific category, such as a screwdriver?
Chain of custody
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 .........?
Cells from almost any part of the body.
DNA profiling can be done using ....
The presence of drugs or poisons and consumer chemicals.
Hair analysis CANNOT reveal what?
DNA
A genetic fingerprint is obtained from a suspect's what?
Druggist fold
A way of folding paper so that evidence does not fall out is referred to as a ...
Material
This type of evidence forms a substantive part of the case or has a legitimate and effective influence on the decision of the case.
Competent evidence
This type of evidence has been properly collected, identified, filed and continuously secured is called ....
powders
This method is NOT recommended to develop latent fingerprints on unpainted wood, paper, cardboard or other absorbent surfaces.
Listen and observe.
Two basic requirements for obtaining information are to do what?
Did you assault George Smith at 5th and Main last night?
An example of a very DIRECT QUESTION.
At the police department.
The best place to interrogate a suspect is usually?
Prepare your questions and tactics
To improve communications, you should do what?
Polygraph
This is NOT accepted by the court's as evidence.
Hypnosis
What method may be used to help a victim or witness recall an incident.
Voluntary
To be valid in court, a confession must be always be what?
A confessing defendant's statement is used against a non confessing defendant at their joint trial.
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 ....
Adoptive admission
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 t
Use drugs and alcohol to get in with the gang.
NOT one of the precautions for undercover agents.
Reasonable force.
Force necessary to overcome resistance offered during an arrest is referred to as...
Five to ten individuals.
Live lineups generally contain how many individuals?
Line ups
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?
Authorized by a court.
Wiretaps are legal when there is probable cause and they are...
Tennessee v. Garner
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.
Wade-Gilbert Rule.
The requirement of providing counsel to a suspect in a lineup that occurs after indictment or arraignment is known as the ...
Does not violate a suspect's rights.
In United States v. Knotts (1983) the Court ruled that installing and monitoring a bird dog tracking device in a public location...
There should be no reasonable expectation of privacy from the skies above.
Florida v. Riley (1989) approved the warrantless aerial surveillance noting that ......
That the force is objectively reasonable under Fourth Amendment excessive force analysis.
In Saucier v. Katz (2001) the Supreme Court held that the guide for use of excessive force is....
8 to 10 days in warm water and 3 to 4 weeks in cold water.
A dead body that sinks in water usually remains immersed for...
Natural, accidental non criminal, suicide, homicide (non criminal and criminal).
Deaths are classified by type as:
Justifiable homicide
Non criminal homicide includes...
First degree murder
Premeditation would be a requirement in which case?
Cadaveric Spasm
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 ........
Serial murder
What type of murder usually includes the killing of three or more separate victims, with a "cooling off"period between the killings?
Toxicology.
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?
Arsenic
This poison, known as the King of Poisons and the Poison of Kings is called what?