Evidence Flashcards
What’s physical evidence
Materials or objects relevant in a crime known as indirect evidence
Hair fingerprints and blood
What’s testimonial evidence
Statement made under an oath direct evidence
Eye witness accounts
Individual evidence
Material related to a single source
Class evidence
Material associated with a group or items
Transient evidence
Temporary easily changes and observed by first officer on scene
Footprints and coffee
Pattern
Produced by direct contact between a person and object
Conditional
Produced by an event or action
Smoke fire
Transfer
Contact between person(s) or object(s)
Associative
Something that may associate a victim or suspect with a scene or eachother
Personal belongings
Trace
Physical evidence found in small measurable amounts of
Biological
Anything to do with a living organism
Blood hair bacteria
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid carries genetic information of an organism
Adenine goes with thymine
Cytosine with guanine
Fingerprints
Arches loop and whorl used to identify suspect or victim
Blood pattern
Texture affects pattern