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Flashcards in Physical Evidence Deck (10)
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Identification

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Determines a substance’s physical or chemical identity with near certainty

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IAFIS

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Integrated Automated Fingerprint identification system, allows investigators go compare fingerprints

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CODIS

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Combined DNA Index System, allows crime laboratories to compare DNA samples

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Trace evidence

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Small fibers (hairs, skin cells)

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Transient Evidence

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Temporary (smells, temperature, footprints in dust)

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Conditional Evidence

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Produced by a specific action at the scene (lights, position of body, windows, doors)

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Indirect evidence

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Doesn’t prove or disprove a fact in question (proves something else, possibly drug use or other issues not nessacarily associated with the case

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Circumstantial evidence

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Based on suggestion instead of personal knowledge (probability and statistics important here, size 10 sneaker print nearby )

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Individual evidence

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Can be related to an original source (DNA, handwriting, fingerprints)

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Class evidence

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Associated with a group of similar objects but not one single source (blue jeans)