FRSC 202 - MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
As a bloodstain pattern expert, you have been asked to evaluate a crime scene in
which 4 district cast-off patterns are visible. You preliminarily conclude that the
victim was struck ___ times.
5
Upon responding to a noise complaint at a home in the Fan District, police on the
scene notice an individual running at a high rate of speed through an alley behind
the home. The individual is pursued by officers on foot due to the suspicious
response to police presence. This individual now must submit either voluntarily
or by force to a show of police authority. What is this called?
Seizure
Cooling off the body after death.
Algor Mortis
Discoloration of the body after death
Livor Mortis
Stiffening of the body after death
Rigor Mortis
Your hair and nails continue to grow after death. true or false.
False
, If the levels of the crime scene are defined as follows:
Level 1: overall scene security for restriction of general public
Level 2: restriction to official business
Level 3: target area; highest security
Where would you find the media?
Inside Level 1, but outside of Levels 2 & 3
In cases used for illustrative purposes in class such as The Atlanta Child Murders
(Wayne Williams) and others, hairs, fibers, and other microscopic evidence was
presented in court as evidence that tied the suspect to the victim or the crime
scene. What is the term for this type of evidence?
Transitory
You are working in a forensic urine drug testing lab and one of your samples
comes up as a 0.69. The cutoff concentration for that particular drug is 0.70. You
issue a report stating:
The sample is negative
As the medical examiner for your area, you have been called to a death scene.
Upon your arrival, you notice that discoloration is present on the deceased
individual's back, even though the individual is laying face down. You ask if
anyone has moved the body and nobody has. Since you are well educated in
patterns of decomposition, what do you write in your notes?
That the body has been turned over due to a pattern of livor mortis inconsistent with the
condition of the body at the scene
What does Locard's Exchange Principle state?
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
As a bloodstain pattern expert, you have been asked to evaluate a crime scene in
which 4 district cast-off patterns are visible. You preliminarily conclude that the
victim was struck ___ times.
5
Upon responding to a noise complaint at a home in the Fan District, police on the
scene notice an individual running at a high rate of speed through an alley behind
the home. The individual is pursued by officers on foot due to the suspicious
response to police presence. This individual now must submit either voluntarily
or by force to a show of police authority. What is this called?
Seizure
Cooling off the body after death.
Algor Mortis
Discoloration of the body after death
Livor Mortis
Stiffening of the body after death
Rigor Mortis
Your hair and nails continue to grow after death. true or false.
False
, If the levels of the crime scene are defined as follows:
Level 1: overall scene security for restriction of general public
Level 2: restriction to official business
Level 3: target area; highest security
Where would you find the media?
Inside Level 1, but outside of Levels 2 & 3
In cases used for illustrative purposes in class such as The Atlanta Child Murders
(Wayne Williams) and others, hairs, fibers, and other microscopic evidence was
presented in court as evidence that tied the suspect to the victim or the crime
scene. What is the term for this type of evidence?
Transitory
You are working in a forensic urine drug testing lab and one of your samples
comes up as a 0.69. The cutoff concentration for that particular drug is 0.70. You
issue a report stating:
The sample is negative
As the medical examiner for your area, you have been called to a death scene.
Upon your arrival, you notice that discoloration is present on the deceased
individual's back, even though the individual is laying face down. You ask if
anyone has moved the body and nobody has. Since you are well educated in
patterns of decomposition, what do you write in your notes?
That the body has been turned over due to a pattern of livor mortis inconsistent with the
condition of the body at the scene
What does Locard's Exchange Principle state?
