Deck 3: Nature of Evidence

Question 1

Evidence is probative if it could possibly be linked to the crime.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Materiality of evidence in court means the evidence pertains to the crime.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A type of physical evidence is money stolen from a bank.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A type of non-physical evidence is a hard drive from a suspect's computer.

Question 5

Evidence generated by criminal activity is referred to as real evidence.

Question 6

Investigation of a crime scene requires being able to associate all recovered evidence with particular people or objects.

Question 7

Evidence whose source is unidentified is referred to as unknown evidence.

Question 8

Individual evidence is evidence that can be associated with one person or object.

Question 9

Class evidence is better evidence since is can be linked to more suspects.

Question 10

A videotaped experiment shown to a jury that clarifies real evidence is an example of demonstrative evidence.

Question 11

The NAS report was critical of fingerprints as individual evidence because

A) there were not enough fingerprints in AFIS
B) other agencies worldwide were questioning the analysis
C) there were not enough exemplars to compare
D) there was no statistical data analysis for fingerprints
E) none of these

Question 12

DNA evidence is important in court because

A) CODIS has a large amount of samples for comparison
B) DNA is accepted worldwide
C) there is statistical data analysis for DNA in order to determine probability
D) all humans contain DNA
E) none of these

Question 13

Shoeprints and tire tread evidence

A) are considered class evidence
B) are considered individual evidence
C) are not acceptable in court
D) are not unique since there are repeat brands
E) all of the above

Question 14

Which of the following is not a type of class evidence?

A) soil
B) glass with no unique characteristics
C) a fingerprint
D) fire residues
E) all are class evidence

Question 15

The test result that yields a positive when it should yield a negative result is a

A) false negative
B) false positive
C) positive-positive
D) negative-negative
E) inconclusive

Question 16

The test result that yields a negative when it should yield a positive result is a

A) false negative
B) false positive
C) positive-positive
D) negative-negative
E) inconclusive

Question 17

Which of the following is considered real evidence?

A) a videotape of the scene
B) a videotape showing how a bloodstain pattern could have been made
C) a crime scene sketch
D) a gun found in the woods near the crime scene
E) all of these are real evidence

Question 18

Which of the following is considered demonstrative evidence?

A) a cigarette butt at the scene
B) a cigarette butt found outside the scene
C) a crime scene sketch
D) a gun found in the woods near the crime scene
E) all of these are real evidence