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An 8 page paper presenting the importance of systematic collection of crime scene evidence in the field. Discussion includes information of collection of fingerprints, foot and tire prints, evidence of sexual assault, and trace evidence such as hair and fiber. The paper stresses the importance of field documentation of evidence. Bibliography list five sources.
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which has been collected by law enforcement personnel. Many times the evidence alone is sufficient to demonstrate the guilt or innocence of a particular individual. To do so
evidence must be collected, processed and presented in a in a scientifically accepted manner in accordance with strict methodologies and technologies. The acceptability of evidence in a court of
law hinges on how that evidence was collected and processed (Federal Bureau of Investigation). At one time it was sufficient to produce a
poorly formed footprint or other less-than-demonstrable evidence and use that evidence to incriminate an individual without much resistance on the part of the scientific and legal community. That is
no longer the case. Evidence now often encounters close scrutiny from the defendant and the various experts he or she has enlisted to help demonstrate his or her innocence.
Any question of inappropriate collection or processing becomes an issue which is likely to result in the dismissal of the evidence from consideration if not an immediate distrust on
the part of the jury who is enlisted to determine the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Sometimes evidence is composed of large
evidence such as the possession of property which can be connected to a crime, to the possession of a gun which can be demonstrated to have been used in a
crime or to the presence of items such as documents or drugs. Other times evidence hinges of factors which are much less obvious. The presence of fingerprints at
a crime scene, the presence of soil, plant material, hair, glass, gunpowder residue, or fiber on an individual which can be demonstrated to be from a crime scene, the presence
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