Criminal Law Questions

Orfila and Marsh were able to identify what poison in human tissue?

Which group of drugs includes legal painkillers like OxyContin?

Where did the first law against poisoning occur?

LSD is produced from ergot, a fungus that is found on some plants and grasses.

The percent saturation of carbon monoxide poisoning is always 34 percent.

Which of the following is NOT a common additive for street drugs?

Sariyah is a forensic scientist and discovers a mysterious substance at a crime scene. She takes the substance back to her lab and uses the Van Urk test to confirm her suspicions. What drug does Sariyah suspect?

Which of the following is NOT a piece of information that forensic scientists should include on the label of a drug found at a crime scene?

A person's blood alcohol content (BAC) depends ONLY on how much alcohol they've consumed.

Which of the following effects tend to produce addiction when using stimulant drugs?

According to leading figures in the field, criminal forensics demands more than just swabbing for DNA and testing flecks of blood; it requires imagination. Discuss with your team: should prosecutors invest in hiring screenwriters and other storytellers to reconstruct how crimes happened? Do you think artificial intelligence could play a similar role in solving cases—or identifying suspects?

In the opening episodes of Star Trek: Picard, two characters need to solve a murder in an apartment—but someone has scrubbed the floors, replaced the windows, and wiped all the alpaca spit from the walls. (The only eyewitness also exploded.) Undeterred, they resort to an alien device that can project a blurry hologram of the recent past. Discuss with your team: if investigators could use such a technology to observe what had happened in a crime or accident scene, would there be any need for judges or juries to determine guilt or innocence? Assuming it can only show you events from the last 24 hours or so, for what other purposes might such a technology be useful?

When the media can show actual footage of a tragedy or other newsworthy event, they do, often exhaustively. Before photography and cinema, artists had to draw forensic sketches; consider this contemporary recreation of Lincoln's assassination. Today, if they lack real footage, broadcasters can generate animated recreations—for instance, this controversial reconstruction of celebrity golfer Tiger Woods' car crash in 2019. Discuss with your team: can such animations serve an important function in informing the public? What is the difference between animating a news story and reenacting it with live actors? Should all the people featured in reenactments of recent events have to give their consent—and, if so, what if they are no longer alive to give it?

In countries with trials by jury, some prosecutors worry that people who watch crime dramas on television will have unrealistic expectations of what forensic science can achieve. This so-called "CSI effect" might lead them to find defendants "not guilty" if they aren't presented with razor-sharp fingerprints, perfect DNA matches, and other feats of forensic wizardry—but these are far harder to obtain in the real world than on Netflix or the BBC. Then, when forensic evidence is presented at trial, they might overestimate its importance—discounting other evidence, such as eyewitness testimony or a robust alibi, that could exonerate the accused. Discuss with your team: should juries in criminal trials exclude people who watch too much crime-related television? Is this a real problem, and, if so, might it also affect judges, journalists, and political leaders?

in a class of 25 students, 8 were wearing a pink shirt. in the same class, 17 students had on blue jeans. eyewitnesses all stated that the suspect was in the class, and wearing both a pink shirt and blue jeans. according to the laws of probability, what percent of the class could be the suspect? show ur work

A pair of latex gloves was found at a crime scene. A box of the same brand of latex gloves was found at a suspect's home. Are the gloves individual or class evidence? can to gloves be individualized to the box?

Estimations of the postmortem interval (PMI) using entomological evidence must take into account...A) weather conditions B) the species of insects present C) geographical location of the decedents body D) the location's climate overtime E) all of the above

______ is a national fingerprint and criminal history system maintained by the FBI and launched in 1999.A) NIBINB) AFISC) SICARD) PDQE) IAFIS

Typically, about an hour after death, the decedent's body loses heat at a rate of approximately ______ until the body reaches the environmental temperature.A) 0.1-0.2 °C per hourB) 12 °F per hourC) 1-1.5 °F per hourD) 1-1.5 °F per minuteE) 1-1.5 °C per hour

The computerized database used to store DNA information is...A) NIBINB) PDQC) CODISD) AFISE) Drugfire