8-22-13 Court Testimony Good morning‚ everyone in this courtroom today my name is Cynethia Lee and I’m an expert witness. I’m here today because I hold some key evidence in the murder of Alma Tirtsche. While stating what I saw on that cold gruesome day of Ms.Tirtsche’s murder I’m also going to inform you on how hair from a victim can be traced back to a suspect in a case maybe leading up to a trial and conviction. source: Google Here are some of the things you should know about hair. Hair
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this court room today. My name is Dr. Alyssa Diaz and I am an expert witness. I was called here to testify on this court case. Also I am here to inform you how examining a piece of hair from a suspect from a crime can help to find out who actually did commit the crime. There are some basic things that people should know about hair. A persons hair contains their DNA. Also there are several different parts of a persons piece of hair. Some different parts of hair are the
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VaShanti K. Lawrence Monday 26‚ 2013 Hair Testimony Criminal Investigation and Forensics 1st period Good Moring‚ I am expert witness VaShanti Lawrence. I was called to testify about hair. Also I am here to inform you about the forensic hair analysis and explain why it is considered calls evidence. I am going to prove that the suspect Colin Ross’s hair does match the hair found at the crime scene. This is a diagram of the basic structure of hair a hair from the crime scene‚ or one found on
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Rubric For Hair Testimony Essay Hi everyone‚ my name is . I am a hair analysis expert. Firstly‚ I graduated from California State University in 1996. I work in the lab of New York Police Department. I work using the Scanning Electron Microscope for examining different types of small evidence. In other words I am a SEM user in this lab. I have been spent 18 years on this job‚ hence the reason why I am wearing contact lenses. During my years of working in the lab‚ my eyes have tired out from the constant
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Marroquin. I am a hair analysis expert. I am here today to determine whether or not the suspects are responsible for the crime that has been committed. I have here the lab results depicting the crime scene. The trace evidence (small but measurable amounts of physical or biological material found at a crime scene) found at the crime scene was the killers hair‚ and the victim’s own hair to exclude any hair samples found similar to the victim. There are three suspect and one sample hair found at the scene
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Abstract More and more we are seeing cases in the news that people are being exonerated after being falsely accused of a crime. Unfortunately‚ most of the cases involve DNA or other evidence finally being reviewed years after a conviction. There are now hundreds of inmates on death row who claim DNA tests or review of evidence would show they were not guilty of the crimes for which they were convicted. Logic suggests that untold numbers of additional innocent people have been punished for crimes they
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“He genuinely believed the accusations against him had been a serious misunderstanding and that… he’d be released in a few days” (Stevenson‚ 2015‚ 55). False testimony has always been an undeniable issue in court cases. Walter McMillan was accused of sodomy. A word he did not even know the meaning of. He was then threatened to be lynched when he told the arresting officer that did not understand the meaning of the crime he was being accused of. “This provoked Tate‚ who unleashed a torrent of racial
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The Inconsistency of Eyewitness Testimonies in the Legal Setting Ashleigh Precoma Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Eyewitness testimony is an important area of research in cognitive psychology and human memory. Matsumoto‚ 2009 defined eyewitness testimony as information that an individual can provide about a crime. This includes information about the perpetrator(s) as well as information about the crime and crime scene. This information is then delivered by the bystander in a courtroom
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Eyewitness Testimony as a source of reliable evidence In relation to cognitive psychology‚ is eyewitness testimony reliable in today’s judicial system? Word Count: 3944 ABSTRACT Is eyewitness testimony a reliable source of evidence in today’s judicial system? Many jurors tend to pay close attention to eyewitness testimony assuming that what they hear is exactly as it happened. They ignore the psychology behind remembering an event. Our brain is a complex structure and it is difficult to absorb
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about hair components and how they are examined. I will go step by step to insure that everyone knows what makes up hair‚ how a hair sample is analyzed and why the crime scene hair evidence is a match to the suspect here today. I will be talking about certain terms that are in the diagram above such as the shaft‚ follicle‚ root‚ bulb‚ cuticle‚ cortex and medulla. . The bulb is at the base of the hair and includes different layers of cells that extend through the hair follicle. The hair follicle
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