INDEX

• Jurisdiction: North Carolina

Index

Abuse of Discretion, defined, 118

Acquittal, defined, 36

AFTE guidelines, 93

Anthony, Casey, 233, 234, 245

Anthropometry, 87

Appeal, State v. Grant, 433-434

Appeals, 49-52

ASCII, 238

Bench Trial, defined, 33

Beyond a reasonable doubt, 3, 4, 7, 16, 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 31, 36, 38, 52-54, 63, 64, 161, 164, 176, 282, 283, 286, 318, 335, 392, 408, 413-418, 429-431, 437, 438

BIT (binary digit), 237

Blood spatter, defined, 300

Blood spatter, 5, 8, 17, 60-62, 78, 120, 188, 221, 299-321, 381, 385, 389, 400

Arterial spurt, 300, 302

Cast-off, 299, 300, 302, 303, 305, 320

Clotting time, 303

Crime Reconstruction, in, 306

Experiments inadmissible, 312

Grant, State v., blood spatter in, 319

Hypothetical Opinion, 308

Patterns, methods of determining, 303

Police as expert, 307

Sheppard, State v., blood spatter in, 315-319

Transfer pattern, 300, 303, 320

Velocity, 8, 299-302, 310, 312, 314, 315, 317, 319, 402

Chain of custody, defined, 67

Chain of custody, 67-71

Chain of custody, State v. Grant, 70-71, 410-412

Circumstantial evidence, defined, 14

Circumstantial evidence, 3-5, 7, 14-19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 66, 161, 190, 257, 282, 413, 430

Circumstantial evidence, State v. Grant, 26-28, 416

Class characteristics, 4, 8, 29, 57, 75, 133, 203, 205, 206, 217, 218, 226, 329, 360

Closing Arguments, 150, 181, 408, 413, 428, 434

CMOS, 235

Cold case, 58, 191, 391, 414

Confrontation Clause of U.S. Constitution, 38

Crafts, State v., 19, 21, 28

Crime Scene Investigation, purpose, 58

Crime scene processing, 67

Crime sketch, 60

Laboratory testing, 61, 192

On-site investigation, 59

Search warrant, 60, 158, 228, 229, 239, 250, 251, 398, 439

CSI Effect, 63, 165

Daubert Tests, defined, 111

adoption by some states, 117

extended to technical testimony, 118

science developed for litigation, 120

Digital evidence, 6, 81, 227-229, 236, 239, 250, 255

Direct evidence, defined, 14

Dissent, defined, 20

DNA, defined, 167

Alleles, 73, 167, 169-172, 184, 185, 188, 198, 199, 329

Blobs, noise and stutter, 198

Chromosomes, 165, 167, 188, 199

Adenine, 167, 169, 170

Cytosine, 167, 169, 170

Guanine, 167-170

Thymine, 167, 169, 170

Cold hit DNA, 177, 178

Combined DNA Index System, [CODIS], defined,177

Confrontation Clause, right to examine DNA testers, 192-197

Degraded samples, 172, 198

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, 167

DQ Alpha, 399, 402, 403, 407, 416, 437

Grant, State v., DNA hearing, 181

Identification mistakes, 155

Judicial Notice of, 173

LCN [Low Copy Number] DNA Testing, 184

Locus, loci, 167

Mitochondrial DNA, [MtDNA], 188

Mixtures, 186, 198, 368, 420

Peterson, Scott, 190

Planting of DNA evidence, 190

Polymerase Chain Reaction, [PCR], 170

Poor Laboratory Procedures, 191

Product Rule, defined, 171

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