FIS 201 – Lecture 3 Quiz Study Guide and Practice Questions
Place the steps of evidence analysis in the correct order: - ANS✔✔ Detection
Preservation
Identification
Association
Reconstruction
Someone has spray "Go Pitt" in grey spray paint all over Woodburn hall. Based on video footage
from the night, Alice Trumbull is arrested.
Police find flecks of gray paint on a pair of shoes in her car.
Based on this scenario, choose the appropriate descriptors for each component of the crime,
given the hypothesis that Alice is our culprit.
1. The fact that there are grey flecks on the shoes and grey paint used at the scene. - ANS✔✔
Incriminating
Corroborating
Circumstantial
Surveillance footage of the night in question, showing Alice in the act. - ANS✔✔ Incriminating
Corroborating
Direct
True or false: Eyewitness testimony is a form of admissible evidence. - ANS✔✔ True
Which of the following conditions would tend to lead to eyewitness error by the victim? -
ANS✔✔ You are on your way to a final exam in a difficult class, and you are shoved to the
ground.
Place the steps of evidence analysis in the correct order: - ANS✔✔ Detection
Preservation
Identification
Association
Reconstruction
Someone has spray "Go Pitt" in grey spray paint all over Woodburn hall. Based on video footage
from the night, Alice Trumbull is arrested.
Police find flecks of gray paint on a pair of shoes in her car.
Based on this scenario, choose the appropriate descriptors for each component of the crime,
given the hypothesis that Alice is our culprit.
1. The fact that there are grey flecks on the shoes and grey paint used at the scene. - ANS✔✔
Incriminating
Corroborating
Circumstantial
Surveillance footage of the night in question, showing Alice in the act. - ANS✔✔ Incriminating
Corroborating
Direct
True or false: Eyewitness testimony is a form of admissible evidence. - ANS✔✔ True
Which of the following conditions would tend to lead to eyewitness error by the victim? -
ANS✔✔ You are on your way to a final exam in a difficult class, and you are shoved to the
ground.