CRJ 200

CRJ 200 week 8 Homework Assignment Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Please answer the following questions thoroughly: 1. What are the different methods used to notify a witness to appear in court? 2. What is appropriate clothing for law enforcement professionals to wear to court? 3. Identify the persons that the law enforcement witness should not speak to during recesses. 4. Explain what a law enforcement witness should do

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CRJ 200 WEEK 8 Homework Assignment Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Please answer the following questions thoroughly: 1. What are the different methods used to notify a witness to appear in court? 2. What is appropriate clothing for law enforcement professionals to wear to court? 3. Identify the persons that the law enforcement witness should not speak to during recesses. 4. Explain what a law enforcement witness should

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CRJ 200 WEEK 7 QUIZ Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Match the Key Term with the proper definition: 1. Property that is seizable by a law enforcement officer that may be used to show that a felony has been committed or that a particular individual has committed a felony. 2. A prerequisite to the introduction of evidence of a document that requires the party introducing the document to show that the document is what it is claim

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CRJ 200 WEEK 7 DISCUSSION Physical Evidence Chain of custody Why is it so important to establish the chain of custody of physical evidence? What kinds of things would you look for to find a weakness in the chain? At some point do we have to just trust police and take their word for it? Gruesome objects: If a case involves assault with a deadly weapon, specifically a knife, should that knife be presented to the jury even if it is covered bloo

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CRJ 200 WEEK 7 Homework Assignment Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence 1. What are the four general categories of physical evidence? 2. What are the three methods an officer can use to identify an object in court positively as the one that the officer found at the crime scene? 3. What information should be placed in a typical tag? 4. How should items of evidence be packaged for long-term storage in an evidence locker? 5.

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CRJ 200 WEEK 6 QUIZ Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Match the Key Term with the proper definition 1. A distinctive pattern of committing crimes. 2. A showing that an item of evidence has any tendancy to prove or disprove a pertinent fact. 3. An exception to the best evidence rule that permits a summary, chart, or calculation of voluminous records to be presented in the place of the records themselves. 4. Other evid

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CRJ 200 WEEK 6 DISCUSSION Circumstantial Evidence We revisit circumstantial evidence As we discussed before, there is a perception that circumstantial evidence is not as good as direct evidence such as an eyewitness. (Of course, eyewitness testimony can be considered unreliable too.) As the reading discussed, most forensic evidence is basically circumstantial evidence. For example, a common type of forensic evidence that is found in criminal

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CRJ 200 WEEK 6 Homework Assignment Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Please answer the following questions thoroughly 1. What is the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence? 2. Why does the law generally prohibit evidence of the defendant's character? 3. What is the difference between motive and intent? 4. What are the ways opposing counsel might attack a witness's character? 5. What are five situations in

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CRJ 200 WEEK 5 QUIZ Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence Match the Key Term with the proper definition 1. A presentation to a witness of a number of photographs for the identification of the perpetrator. 2. Occurs when there is some meaningful interference with an individual's possessory interest in that property. 3. The initiation of an adversarial judicial proceeding, whether by way of a formal charge, preliminary hearing,

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CRJ 200 WEEK 5 Homework Assignment Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence 1. What is the primary purpose of the exclusionary rule? 2. What are the conditions examined in the two-pronged test for determining, under the Fourth Amendment, whether there is a search? 3. How does an officer obtain a valid search warrant? 4. How can officer establish probable cause? 5. What are the three basic types of identification procedures? 6.

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