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DNA and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project

so-called cold cases and have been on the books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some huma...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Changing the Scottish Evidence Rules

be heard. The opposite to this is an inquisition system, where there are not different sides, but the aim of finding the truth. Al...

United Kingdom and Evidence That is Illegally Obtained

of the case. Mirfield (1998) in fact focuses on the topic of pretrial evidence and warns about improperly obtained evidence. Altho...

Justification Concept and Process

In six pages this paper discusses 'facts' and 'evidence' as they pertain to the justification concept and process....

'Moses and Monotheism' by Sigmund Freud

In five pages social amnesia is examined in terms of the evidence offered by Sigmund Freud in his work....

Controversial Evidence

involving torture or the killing of a law enforcement officer, is a plan that does not require scientific proof (Daley, 2004). "Ra...

The Importance of Footprint Evidence and Examination of Firearm Evidence

be found at a crime scene after others, especially first responders, have walked there; incomplete or poorly conducted searchers o...

Hearsay Rule Exceptions

In five pages examples are provided in an examination of when there are exceptions to the hearsay rule with instances of court cas...

Hearsay Rule and Declarations of the Dying

In twenty pages dying exceptions to the hearsay rule are discussed with definitions and conditions of admissibility considered. E...

Admissibility of Expert Defense Witness Testimony and A Time to Kill by John Grisham

In five pages this paper discusses the US judicial system in a consideration of expert witness defense testimony admissibility and...

Comparative Analysis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Rape Trauma Syndrome

is administered by a trained counselor for sexual assault victims. The test determines if the alleged victim has indeed been the v...

New Jersey Laws Regarding DWI and DUI

or she is guilty no matter what their disposition had been at the time (Marootian, 2005). Between .08% and .10% is considered to b...

Issues of Field Collection in Criminal Forensics

evidence such as the possession of property which can be connected to a crime, to the possession of a gun which can be demonstrate...

Costly Mistakes in Forensic Evidence Collection

This paper addresses the necessity of proper field collection procedure in forensic evidence collection. The author cites the O.J...

Are Good Leaders Likely to be Tall?

In 1924, 1970 and 1976 the US elections for president were not won by the tallest candidate, in the others the tallest candidate h...

Child Language and Knowledge of Syntax

684). There is what several theorists describe as "language learnability" that enables children to take that seed of syntax knowl...

Issues in Criminal Evidence

event in question (Beitman, 2005). Secondly, physical evidence can be authenticated if a chain of custody can be established. Th...

Evidence of Law and Forensics

law remains stable, the emotions surrounding particular crimes and defenses sometimes rage almost out of hand. Consider, for exam...

Forensic Chemistry & Trace Evidence

forensic scientists compare "body fluids and hair for typing factor" (Keenan). Forensic scientists also use chemistry to analyze "...

Rules of Evidence: Questions and Answers

the suspect." What happens is that the investigator will either intentionally or unintentionally lead the witness. He may say som...

The Scott Peterson Case

on Courttv.com reveals the way the attitudes of the people involved change as time goes on. Irregularities come to light and thing...

Presentation Guideline for Global Warming

ice caps, however, which have begun falling apart in the manner of Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. We cant put those back tog...

Facts and Findings in the Alice ‘Lindy’ Chamberlain Case

* Adjacent to and on a coin on the floor well under the front passenger seat; * A flow of blood on the hinge of the right...

The World Trade Organization and Appeals Criteria

What can be appealed? How does one distinguish between issues of law and issues of fact? Can factual...

Wealth Distribution and the Impact of Networking

means is that networks now exist at all levels of society, from financial networks to social networks that drive interpersonal com...

The Case Against Global Warming

influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Law and the Impact of Evidence

investigation. Evidence can assume many forms including testimony from witnesses, forensic evidence such as DNA data, or document-...

Louisiana Verses the Federal Government Prosecuting Obstruction of Justice in Offshore Incidents

Crimes can occur in any setting under any situation. While we tend to think of crime as activity involving...