The Crime Scene and Types of Evidence

Forensics Science MissL 2010-2011

Chapter 3, 2 Deslich The Crime Scene and Types of Evidence

Standards: 5.4.4b 5.4.6c 5.412 A,B,C

Lesson Plan: use the fill in the blank lesson plan as our introduction to this unit. Save the answers to take a quiz at the end of the unit.

P2 there are 3 main roles of a forensic scientist 1 2 3 P8 Loccard stated a principle that all criminal investigations are based on:

P9 How is scientific method used in everything we do in crime scene investigation P11 what are the basic individual rights, both victim and perpetrator? (have us turn to the correct page in the book) P12 what are the Miranda rights (have us turn to the correct page in the book) P14 why must evidence be probative and material, not heresay

P15 what is the Daubert Standard

P37 name 4 adjectives to describe how evidence is collected p. 37 what is crime scene reconstruction and what is modus operandi

P37 3 things the CSI will use evidence for that was collected at the crime scene

P38 why does the CSI need to know what evidence to collect and what to leave behind

P38 (4)responsibilities of first officer at the scene

P38 what does the medical examiner do when arriving at the scene

P38 what does the CSI immediately do when arriving at the scene

P39 how does the CSI observe the scene and what is oblique lighting used for

P39 why are CSI notes so important

P40 why are photographs so important

P40 why do sketches allow for selectivity

Why are measurements so important in sketches p.41 in general what are CSI looking for when they search for evidence P41 why are clothes, documents etc packaged and brought to the lab? (what might they contain)

P42 name types pf search patterns and what is the advantage of each ** see handout **

P41 why does each collected piece of evidence go in a separate package

P42 wet evidence must be?

Biologicals must be?

Firearms must be?

Accelerants must not?

P42 why does the CSI collect controls or exemplars?

P42 what is chain of custody and why is it critical

TYPES of EVIDENCE P21 what is testimonial evidence

P22 what is physical evidence

P22 name some reasons why eyewitness testimony is usually unreliable Any idea what is the usual reason for someone being wrongly convicted: hence the Innocence Project

P23 why is interview technique so important in getting accurate information

P23 most cases of an innocent person being convicted are because??

P24why is physical evidence more reliable than testimonial

p.26 name a few reasons for the value of physical evidence

P27 what is the difference between class and individual evidence and what are exemplars

Lab/Activity Ideas

Activity One: I have a crime scene out. Kids learn types of evidence/observation skills/scientific method(p9) make a handout of p16-17, 65 Lee book scientific method

P25 Lee book classify/individualize make handout

I need some kind of chart for them to fill in crime scene reconstruction of events/ types of searches, grid etc with planted evidence…….teach exemplar vs evidence, individual vs class evidence, types of physical evidence that has probative value vs non probative add to first lesson http://www.feinc.net/cs-proc.htm

Activity Two: Court TV mini crime scenes?? http://school.cengage.com/forensicscience/home.html go to chapter 2, do interactive activity for kids to get used to working their own crime scene

Each bench designs a crime scene using evidence. Other team solves it: a) Sketch b) What the first officer does c) How to bag each evidence, type of evidence(class/individual, material/ probative, material/indirect/non probative) d) Victim/perpetrator rights e) Does each piece of evidence adhere to the Daubert Standard f) Reconstruct a possible scenario g) What was the modus operandi

www.feinc.net/sketch.htm

free cd coming http://www.cadzone.com/Eval/eval-request.aspx See my computer C:\Documents and Settings\fledogar\My Documents\crime scene sketch 2008-9 burn this to CD

ActivityTthree: Eyewitness accounts

Use as introduction to activity http://school.cengage.com/forensicscience/home.html go to chapter one on left side, click interactive activity Learning to See can’t load it

1. FACES CD: learn to sketch an intruder from:

a. practice #1 b. intruder as testimonial evidence: as practice #2, learn to interview and take notes see p 22-23 when writing this lab

2. Interview techniques

Case Studies: looking for bungled crime scenes, no Miranda rights , cross contamination, broken chain of custody, testimony http://www.innocenceproject.org/ wrongful convictions due to eye witness http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php

Find names when you write lesson.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm? newsid=10310057&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6

2. http://www.uplink.com.au/lawlibrary/Documents/Docs/Doc115.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald

John Benet Ramsey http://jonbenetramsey.pbwiki.com/Ramsey%20Did%20It%20Theories

1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/cotton/summary.html 2. Mark Winger

Coral Eugene Watts http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/watts.htm

Ronald Cotton http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=06

Richard Crafts http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/woodchipper_murder/4.html Xerox from Lee book p5

Kiki Camarena http://cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu/librarybush/specialty/RRkikicamarena.html

Kait Arquette http://kaitarquette.arquettes.com/ Reverend Devernon LaGrand p33 Lee Book need of evidence to back up testimony http://www.holysmoke.org/haught/pent-1.html http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/L/LEGRAND_devernon_steven.php

Ricky Dyer, Jr. http://www.unsolvedcrimes.com/ricky-dyer.html

State of Conn v Duntz (Richard Duntz) crime scene processing http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9E0CE3DB123EF937A2575BC0A964958260

Natalee Holloway: forensic tools used to search for her body http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalee_Holloway

OJ Simpson lost or damaged evidence Lillian Oetting 1960 killed by Chester Weger

Quiz: 1.p.51,64 Siegle 2. p13, 33 Berttino

Movie: Scene of the Crime Aetv.com/html/home/index.jhtml

The List Murders www.films.com/Films_Home/Index.cfm?S=1

***http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/building-a-case-using-forensic-evidence.html Article ****http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/special_segments&id=7436603