TSA Forensic Technology Latest 2023/2024 100% Pass

TSA Forensic Technology Latest 2023/2024 100% Pass Passive Stains Drops, Flows, and Pools, results from gravity acting Transfer Stains object coming in contact with existing blood stains and leaving wipes, smears, or pattern transfers Impact Stains blood projecting through air and usually seen as splatters. (May also include gushes, splashes, and arterial spurts.) Gunshot Splatter Includes forward splatter from exit wound and back splatter from entrance wound. Typically: Forward is a fine mist and the back is larger, fewer drops. Cast-Off Results when an object sung in arc flings blood onto nearby surfaces. Tail points in direction of motion and the number of arcs can show minimum number of blows. Arterial Spray Spurt of blood when a major artery is severed with new pattern created each time the heart pumps Expired Splatter blood from an internal injury mixing with air from lungs being expelled through the nose, mouth, or an injury to airways or lungs, forms a very fine mist and some blood stains are latent. Sharp Force Injuries (Stabbing) Less blood being deposited on the instrument, smaller more linear patterns of stains Blunt Force Injuries (Hitting or Beating) larger surface area will collect more blood, producing drops of various sizes. Gunshot Injuries Mist like splatter caused by bullets entering and exiting a body. Transient Evidence evidence that might be expected to degrade or disappear within a particular time frame Exsanguination Bleeding to death Sharp Instruments Make incised wounds Blunt Objects Produce lacerations (deep cut or tear in flesh or skin) Altor Mortis Cooling of body after death How long Lividity Lasts 36 hours Lividity Discoloration of the body after death. Takes minutes to an hour Rigor Mortis Stiffening of a body after death. It takes about 4 hours after death Classified as Traumatic Death Suicidal, Homicidal, Accidental 5 Manners of Death Natural, Accidental, Homicidal, Suicidal, Undetermined Manner of Death The Fashion of how the death came to be Mechanism of death The fashion of how the death came to be Considered Trauma Thermal, Mechanical, Chemical Number of permanent teeth found in a typical human mouth 32 Most likely be the most clear and distinct bite A fresh bite into tissues containing lots of muscle Poorly defined bite marks associated with possible tearing of tissue and frequent occurring as multiple bites Defensive Bite Marks Field that studies disease, disease causes, and diagnosis of disease Pathology The Primary Duty of a forensic expert in a court of law To Tell the Truth what Forensic Science is often called Public Science Fundamental purpose of the criminal justice system to protect the right of the accused Word the ancient Greeks used to indicate the proper harmony of feeling and intellegence Reason Decides if someone is qualified as an expert witness The Judge What the Term "Forensics" means Related to public or legal matters The way the office of the coroner in English law is unique Coroner have a duty to conduct investigations into matters within their jurisdiction An Official who investigates sudden, violent, or suspicious death Coroner May be conducted over the personal, moral or religious objections of next of kin if the medical examiner of coroner determines it is nessecary to determine cause of pain Autopsies in the US What the measurement of a conclusion drawn from scientific data is called the Degree of Scientific certainty gross examination deals only with what is visible to the unaided eye Hair Cutting Contains Mitochondria DNA Statue of Limitations for investigation cause of death No limits The most important single consideration in collecting and preserving a loaded or potentially loaded as evidence safety A strong smell of gasoline at a crime scene would be an example of what kind of evidence? Transient Evidence A rough crime scene sketch shows all measurements appropriate primary container for the collection and preservation of dried blood collected from the surface of an object Folded Paper Video taping for documentation purposes at a crime scene is not an acceptable subsitute for taking notes, taking photograph, sketching crime scene, or none of the above? none of the above what the first responder at the crime scene does safety first type of evidence that always requires inference of one face from a fact that has been proven in court circumstantial evidence The primany purpose of forensic evidence in a criminal trial to physically link the defendant to the crime scene, What Forensic Scientist Differ From Other Scientists They have Legal Obligaations to which they must conform their conduct A Sequence of events that although accidential, seems to be planned or arranged coincidence Fact of Opintions generated of supported by the use of one or more of the forensic science Forensic Evidence Evidence that associates a particualr person with a crime scene or the commission of a crime individual characteristic Evidence Court Approved information that the jury is allowed to consider when determmining a defendant's guilt or innocence Evidence Scientifc Data Used in a courtroom setting to establish the connation of a person to a crime Evidence