Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law, Second Edition
Terrence F. Kiely
Language: English
Pages: 536
ISBN: 0849328586
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
One of the greatest challenges encountered by those in the forensic sciences is anticipating what the state and federal courts will – or will not – allow as valid physical evidence. With this in mind, the author of Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law, Second Edition analyzes and explains the judicial system’s response to the applicability of forensic science in the investigation, prosecution, and defense of criminal activity.
Each chapter of this comprehensive yet accessible resource provides an overview and analysis of the scientific and legal aspects of a particular forensic discipline. An important new feature of this second edition is that each chapter focuses on discussions of recent forensics literature reviews from Interpol’s 14th Annual Forensic Science Symposium. This latest edition also updates previously discussed cases and presents the most recent applications of the Frye and Daubert standards, the admissibility of eyewitness identification, the upsurge of cases and statutes that involve post-conviction DNA, and the increased interest in re-examining cold cases.
As challenges to forensic evidence become increasingly rigorous, so does the need for intense preparation. Forensic Evidence: Science and the Criminal Law, Second Edition is the book that those in the forensic sciences need to have on hand to successfully prepare for what may await them in the courtroom.
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11 Cal.4th 1171, 906 P.2d 1068, 47 Cal.Rptr.2d 800 (1996). ©2001 CRC Press LLC 67. Id., Jack Leonard, the production manager for the International Sport and Rally Division of Dunlop Tire Company, testified that the tracks of the rear tire at the crime scene had the same highly unique and distinctive characteristics as the rear tire of the motorcycle. See Chapter 7, Footprints and Tire Impressions. 68. Supra, note 66, at 1189. 69. Id. at 1190. 70. State v. Lee, 1999 WL 1078733 (La.App. 4 Cir.
1996).35 Among a host of alleged errors claimed by the defendant, Southern, he cited the denial of his motion in limine regarding the state’s proposed offer of microscopic hair analysis. Southern filed a motion in limine to exclude the testimony of a forensic scientist at the Montana State Crime Laboratory, who eventually testified at the trial that she microscopically compared Southern’s hair sample with hairs from the rape ©2001 CRC Press LLC scenes and that the hair from the rape scenes was
dissimilarity between the Payne and Cater killings, on the one hand, and the ten extrinsic offenses, on the other, is that while the bodies of Payne and Cater were both apparently thrown into the Chattahoochee River near the I-285 overpass, only one of the ten extrinsic offense victims’ bodies, that of Joseph Bell, was found in a river.38 Justice Smith observed that victim Bell’s body was discovered in the South River near Rockdale County, miles from where Payne and Cater were found and that the
Torres.39 The defendant was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm, as a result of the death of a bystander shot during a gang-related shootout. The victim was a janitor at a school across the street from the house where the defendant and others were exchanging fire with rival gang members. He was looking out the second-floor window and was fatally struck by a stray bullet. A central issue in the case was the location of the possible shooter, given the angle of shot
bullet-manufacturing processes that supported his chemical analysis and his testimony linking defendant Davis. Mr. Riley testified that research had been conducted on the composition and comparison of bullets manufactured at the same plant on either the same or different days and at different plants. The research revealed that while 400,000 bullets could be produced at a factory in one day, the composition of those bullets will vary vastly unless they were manufactured side by side, because lead
