Summary
One of the biggest areas of concern, and the one with the largest associated price tag, is digital image archiving and chain of custody of digital images. Digital images must be downloaded and archived to a computer system, which requires significant data storage abilities. Compression of an image, the process of reducing the size of an image data file resulting in less required storage space, is one solution, but it has a downside.
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Say Goodbye to Film
When the State of Wisconsin finally made the move to convert its state crime laboratories from conventional film to digital photography, it signaled an end to the use of a form of crime scene documentation and evidence photography that had been used in criminal investigations for over 1 36 years across the United States.
The first recorded criminal case introducing photographs as identification evidence was Udderzook v. Commonwealth in 1874. Criminal cases...See the full content of this document
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