CCIT

Question 1

What is ICARS?

Answer 1

Integrated
Collision
Analysis
Reconstruction 
Service

Question 2

Collision Scene Management

Witness evidence

Answer 2

Identify witnesses.
Isolate witnesses.
Record statements.
Consider on scene interview.

Question 3

OTHER ICARS services include-

Answer 3

Forensic mapping of crime, disaster, and other incident scenes.
Aerial photography
Highway engineering and design assessments.

Question 4

ICARS primary mandate -

Answer 4

Identify and document physical evidence at a collision scene
Analyze and interpret the available physical evidence
Provide objective and unbiased expert opinion with respect to collision dynamics

Question 5

When is ICARS to be immediately contacted?

Answer 5

Fatal collisions
Injury collisions requiring interpretation of physical evidence
Major property damage.
Hit and run
PC mvi involving death, injury, or 3rd party liability.
Police related collisions involving death or injury.

Question 6

Short lived evidence definition -

Answer 6

Evidence which may be permanently lost if not immediately marked, photographed, documented and/or otherwise preserved.

Question 7

List 4 types of physical evidence to be protected for ICARS

Answer 7

Tire marks, debri, ACM, Blood, hair/skin/body fluid transfer, pedestrian related items, bicycle, auto-glass, gravel marks, paint transfer, tire tread impressions.

Question 8

DNA and other material that may be located on the airbag.

Answer 8

Blood
Hair
Skin
Makeup

Question 9

Considerations for blood soaked clothing.

Answer 9

Use double gloves
Paper exhibit bag.
Use new gloves for each exhibit to avoid cross contamination.
Using a drying room/cabinet.

Question 10

ACM’s serve what two functions?

Answer 10

Monitor sensors and deploy the airbag.

and

Record information relating to the vehicle.

Question 11

Definition of a search -

Answer 11

An examination by an agent of the state which constitutes an intrusion upon an individual’s reasonable privacy interest.

Question 12

Two parts of “Edwards Test”

Answer 12

1. Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy?

2. Was the search itself carried out in a reasonable fashion?

Question 13

Three main purposes of a search incidental to arrest -

Answer 13

Ensuring safety of police and public.

Protection of evidence from destruction.

Discovery of evidence which could be used at the arrestees trial. Cloutier vs Langlois

Only justifiable if the purpose of the search is related to the purpose of the arrest. R vs Caslake

Question 14

R vs Marakah determined -

Answer 14

The sender of a text message MAY have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Question 15

Reasonable grounds definition-

Answer 15

“Reasonable grounds are something more than suspicion but something MUCH less than the evidence required to convict and something less than that required to establish a prima facie case”.

R vs Debot

Question 16

The Araujo 5 points of good affidavit writing -

Answer 16

Be full, frank and fair
Be clear and concise
Never try to trick or mislead your readers by the use of your language or strategic omissions
Avoid boilerplate language
Your material should be obtained from the best source possible.

Question 17

Plain view doctrine legal requirements-

Answer 17

Observer must be in lawful position to make observations.
Must discover the incriminating evidence inadvertently not relying upon plain view as pretext.
Goods must be in plain view and not covered or obscured.
Goods are immediately apparent as evidence.