Physical Evidence

Question 0

Identification

Answer 0

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

Question 1

IAFIS

Answer 1

Integrated Automated Fingerprint identification system, allows investigators go compare fingerprints

Question 2

CODIS

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Trace evidence

Answer 3

Small fibers (hairs, skin cells)

Question 4

Transient Evidence

Answer 4

Temporary (smells, temperature, footprints in dust)

Question 5

Conditional Evidence

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Indirect evidence

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Circumstantial evidence

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Individual evidence

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Class evidence

Answer 9

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