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Defining Truth in the Criminal Justice System
This information, although not defining an absolute truth, is always effective for helping the criminal justice system defineits concept of what that “truth” may be.
In the criminal justice system, it is not uncommon to encounter a lawyer who adamantly believes, no matter what the nature of the testimony, that the investigator established in his or her own mind the innocence or guilt of a subject before completing the crime scene evaluation.
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Beyond the Surface: The Rigor of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
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