Forensics Test- Answered Questions

forensic science - ANSWER-the application of science to technical questions relating to events that may lead to civil litigation or criminal prosecution crime scene - ANSWER-the location where a crime has been committed or any place that evidence relating to a crime may be found. primary crime scene - ANSWER-The original location of a crime or accident secondary crime scene - ANSWER-a location other than the primary crime scene, but that is in some way related to the crime, where evidence is found evidence - ANSWER-collected body of data from observations and experiments accomplice - ANSWER-a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) alibi - ANSWER-(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question suspect - ANSWER-someone who is under suspicion District Attorney - ANSWER-an official prosecutor for a judicial district medical examiner - ANSWER-a physician who usually has advanced education in pathology or forensic medicine who determines causes of death autopsy - ANSWER-an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease eyewitness - ANSWER-a spectator who can describe what happened direct evidence - ANSWER-evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute modus operandi - ANSWER-an unvarying or habitual method of procedure physical evidence - ANSWER-Any object that can establish that a crime has been committed or can link a crime and its victim or its perpetrator. Locard's Principle - ANSWER-Whenever two objects come into contact with one another, there is exchange of materials between them.