Introduction
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Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
- Describe the limitations of eyewitness accounts.
- Decide whether eyewitness accounts should be allowed in court and defend your response.
Essential Questions
- What systematic method should be used to investigate a crime scene?
- What is the proper way to document information from the crime scene? What should be included on this report?
- What is the danger of crime scene investigators or forensic scientists making assumptions?
Enduring Understandings
- Forensic results are open to the interpretation and subject to the limitation of the pathologist's knowledge and methods.
- Evidence must be collected in a specific and strategic manner, as well as systematically documented, to ensure that no tampering or contamination occurs.
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Forensic Science and Crime Scene Investigation standards: 12.