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Qualifying Questions for Court Testimony Assignments

You will be given a list of court questions to include qualifying questions as well as questions that would likely be asked by the prosecutor and defense attorney. You will write the answers to these questions, show a synthesis of all the information learned not only in this class but also in previous investigative forensics courses.

This for the defense!

1. Are you a scientist?

2. What is science?

3. What is the difference between classification and identification?

4. What are fingerprint patterns?

5. Of all the pattern types which is the most common?

6. Does my client have this common pattern type?

7. When are friction ridges formed?

8. And how do they form?

9. You mentioned sweat covers the ridges, how does it get there?

10. What is sweat?

11. Are there different types of sweat?

12. Have you ever heard the term nonsecretor? What does it mean?

13. So someone could have touched the item in question and not left a print? Please explain.

14. How long can a latent remain on a surface?

15. So you have no way of determining when my client’s print was left on the item?

16. Can a latent print transfer itself from one object to another? If so How?

Thanks!

Explanation / Answer

1. Are you a scientist?

Yes, I am a forensic scientist,

2. What is science?

The science is a subject, which is useful to illustrate & provide "technical evidences or experimental evidences to determine a hypothesis" for any variable

3. What is the difference between classification and identification?

The identification of any morphological scientific or forensic evidence describing any kind of event caused by any species is different with that of classification of that species

The classification is going to depict exact cellular entity of causative species describing any foresnic -crime event finally classified whether it is unicellular or multicellular

4. What are fingerprint patterns?

The finger patterns are define as the specific differential ridges at the end points of fingers on palm & these patterns are different in different species

Forensic anthropology is mainly dealt with application of biological & genomic aspects of human & nonhuman morphological analysis

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