JS 96GY General Crime Scene Searching and Documentation

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JS 96GY- General Crime Scene Searching and
Documentation

• Pre class activities
• Quiz 2
• Announcements and Assignments
• II. Crime Scene Investigation
• a. Briefing of the crime
• b. Assignment of roles and team captains
• c. Briefing of the crime

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Announcements and Assignments

• Assignments-Required
• Read Chapters 4 in Houde
• Optional reading Crime Scene Investigation- NCJRS
  document http//www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/20016
  0.pdf
• Announcements
• Forensic Investigator Rosa Vega
• Santa Clara ME Office Mon 15 Sept- 1200-1315
• Santa Clara County Crime Laboratory Weds 17
  Sept TBA

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Crime scene exercise - Search for physical
evidence

• A shooting occurred at SJSU in the early morning
  just outside Clark Hall
• A witness stated he heard 5 shots and thought
  they came from the lawn near the statues of the
  Olympians.
• He then stated that he thought he saw someone
  clutching their arm that looked like it was
  bleeding.
• He said the person was running away from the
  statues toward the path leading to the Event
  Center
• You are assigned the following roles
• Security 2 individuals (different teams)
• Note takers 4 individuals (different teams)
• Sketchers 4 individuals (one per team)
• Photographers 2 individuals
• Media 2 individuals
• CSIs 6 individuals
• I was the witness
• You were asked to secure, search, record and
  reconstruct.
• You need to secure the scene, locate and document
  the evidence and collect any physical evidence
  found
• Indicate the types of tests you would like to
  have conducted on the evidence.

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Crime Scene - Search for Physical Evidence 1-
Follow upIn your teams answer the following
questions. Answer the appropriate questions from
the list below for your team. Identify
discrepancies in your answers among your team
members. What do you believe has led to the
discrepancy? How would you resolve them? We
will review each teams results that is- areas of
discordance in the answers both within and among
teams.

• Did you secure the scene? Was it active or
  passive? What boundaries did you set up?
• Did you interview anyone before arriving?
• What did you search for? Why?
• What search methods did you select? Why? Did
  one search method work better than the other?
• After you started your search, did you find
  anything that led you to look for other evidence?
  What kinds of links were you looking for?
• Did you select reference points for measurements?
  What did you select? What measurement method
  did you utilize?
• Did you make a rough sketch?
• 8. List the number and types of evidence you
  found.
• Did you collect the evidence properly? Chain of
  custody, marked clearly, packaged, sealed, stored
  properly?