Legal Medicine Flashcards
Medicine applied to law
Elucidates legal matters
Legal medicine
Law applied to medicine
Medical jurisprudence
Branch of legal med that elucidates legal problems
Forensic medicine
Pieces of evidence subjected to senses of court
Autoptic
Real evidence
ex. video, perfume, telephone recording
Witness is a type of evidence called
Testimonial - testify only to personal knowledge (i saw him)
Heresay - narinig ko, not admissible
except: dying declaration
Expert witness - opinion, scientific, skill, inference, science
Ordinary witness - seen
Deposition is a type of
Documentary evidence
Q & A
Medical evidence
Autoptic/real
Testimonial
Documentary
Physical evidence
Corpus delicti - body of crime, body of victim, knife used to kill with fingerprint, bloodstain (incidental), carnapped vehicle, gun used to kill victim
Associative - connects criminal to crime; fingerprint; blood of criminal; clothing; headlights of car
Tracing - logbook, ship manifest, passanger manifest, drops of blood showing where criminal went
Deception-detection
Psycho-physiological response
Polygraph - lie detector test (vital signs, muscular contraction not included)
Word association - ask several questions, ask to respond quickly, catch if lying or not
Stress evaluator - measure voice, modulation
what in the voice is measured? microtremor not pitch
if lying, microtremor will disappear
Not admissible in evidence
Deception-detection
Drugs
Truth serum - hysocine hydrobromide
Narcoanalysis - Na amytal/ pentothal
Alcohol
Hypnotism
Not admissible in court
Identification methods
Ordinary - manner of walking, gait (cow’s gait knocked knee, waddling gait/duck’s gait, infantile paralysis/frog’s gait/hopping gait) face, stature, height, anthropometry (Bertillion)
Head x 8 = approximates height Tip to tip of middle finger Pubic symphysis -> suprasternal notch x 3 = approximates height Pubic symphysis -> vertex x 2 = height Base of skull -> coccyx x 44% = height
Scientific
Fingerprinting
Dental
Handwriting
Sex - skull, pelvis (most information), femur, barr bodies
Blood - most sensitive (benzene), microchemical crystal examination: takayama (hemoglobin); teichmann’s test (best microchemical)
Semen - test for Falnium
Fingerprinting
Begins at 4 months
Lanugo at 4 months
Latent - nonvisible print, stays up to several years by applying powder Visible print Dactylography - recording fingerprint Dactyloscopy - comparing fingerprint Locards - poroscopy
Kinds of death
Somatic - flat line, clinically dead no more vital signs
Cellular - after 3-6 hours
Apparent/Suspended animation - newborn, drowned prior to resuscitation
Signs of death
Peripheral circulation
Magnus - zone of clearing checked around ligature
Icards - fluorescene dye, if dye moves then there is circulation
Diaphanous test - finger webs, if dead opaque; check if person is still alive
Test for respiration
Saucer
Add mercury or water
Place on chest of victim
If it moves, alive
Winslow test
