ILEA – Exam 14 (2025) – Practice Questions and Exam Revision
Material
Submitting a question document and handwriting exemplars to a lab - correct answer ✔✔You
must have the questioned document & a sample you want compared
Most critical step in the process of collecting physical evidence - correct answer ✔✔Chain of
custody
Information put on evidence to be admitted into court - correct answer ✔✔Agency or entity
case unique case #
Package item # for each collection
Collecting personnel's name & ID #
The date
Short lived evidence - correct answer ✔✔Evidence that will most likely be lost, destroyed, or
compromised once the scene has been cleared. Examples include tire marks, debris field,
gouges, scrapes, fluid trails, blood, Hair, and fibers
The interview mission - correct answer ✔✔Your mission is to obtain all the relevant information
the subject has about a crime or event
cognitive interview - correct answer ✔✔A mind-jogging interview in which the interviewer will
use 4 different areas of questioning:
Reconstruct
Witness report
Different order
Change perspective
, When a LEO comes upon a dead body - correct answer ✔✔If an individual is clearly dead don't
touch anything and take note of the scene
Medical examiner vs coroner - correct answer ✔✔Medical Examiner: performs autopsies;
trained to be a forensics pathologist.
Coroner: Identify body; notify family; collect/ return any personal belongings on the deceased
to the family; signs death certificate
Indiana law requires an autopsy with who? - correct answer ✔✔A board certified pathologist
How to become a good interviewer - correct answer ✔✔Time, Training, and Experience
Be silent & listen
Physical evidence definition - correct answer ✔✔Any tertiary item/article that tends to prove or
disprove a point in question- can be primary, secondary, or tertiary evidence
two types of fingerprints - correct answer ✔✔Inked impressions = a controlled copy of a
persons fingerprints
Latent impressions = visible & invisible fingerprints
1903 Fingerprint Case - correct answer ✔✔Fingerprints were used from this case forward as a
means of positive identification instead of using measurements (bertillon method)
3 general types of fingerprints patterns - correct answer ✔✔Loops- radial or ulnar
Arches- plain or tented
Whorls- plain or central pocket
The use of physical evidence - correct answer ✔✔A comparative science
Material
Submitting a question document and handwriting exemplars to a lab - correct answer ✔✔You
must have the questioned document & a sample you want compared
Most critical step in the process of collecting physical evidence - correct answer ✔✔Chain of
custody
Information put on evidence to be admitted into court - correct answer ✔✔Agency or entity
case unique case #
Package item # for each collection
Collecting personnel's name & ID #
The date
Short lived evidence - correct answer ✔✔Evidence that will most likely be lost, destroyed, or
compromised once the scene has been cleared. Examples include tire marks, debris field,
gouges, scrapes, fluid trails, blood, Hair, and fibers
The interview mission - correct answer ✔✔Your mission is to obtain all the relevant information
the subject has about a crime or event
cognitive interview - correct answer ✔✔A mind-jogging interview in which the interviewer will
use 4 different areas of questioning:
Reconstruct
Witness report
Different order
Change perspective
, When a LEO comes upon a dead body - correct answer ✔✔If an individual is clearly dead don't
touch anything and take note of the scene
Medical examiner vs coroner - correct answer ✔✔Medical Examiner: performs autopsies;
trained to be a forensics pathologist.
Coroner: Identify body; notify family; collect/ return any personal belongings on the deceased
to the family; signs death certificate
Indiana law requires an autopsy with who? - correct answer ✔✔A board certified pathologist
How to become a good interviewer - correct answer ✔✔Time, Training, and Experience
Be silent & listen
Physical evidence definition - correct answer ✔✔Any tertiary item/article that tends to prove or
disprove a point in question- can be primary, secondary, or tertiary evidence
two types of fingerprints - correct answer ✔✔Inked impressions = a controlled copy of a
persons fingerprints
Latent impressions = visible & invisible fingerprints
1903 Fingerprint Case - correct answer ✔✔Fingerprints were used from this case forward as a
means of positive identification instead of using measurements (bertillon method)
3 general types of fingerprints patterns - correct answer ✔✔Loops- radial or ulnar
Arches- plain or tented
Whorls- plain or central pocket
The use of physical evidence - correct answer ✔✔A comparative science
