5 Real-Life Cases of How Proper Evidence Collection Prevailed

By Max Lorenzen CA - Wednesday, July 8, 2015
In 2014, no officer-involved use of force rocked the nation more than the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of Ferguson, Missouri, Police Officer Darren Wilson.
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It affects every cop in America, by the way, but no more than General Wilson encircle itself. We all know now
that in this incident, which we will call for educational purposes Case One, the first contact with the two strong increases robbery suspect when the suspect, Brown, violently attacked the officer and tried to disarm him. Stuck in the front seat of a patrol car, Wilson must "pull out a gun." Brown ran, Agent Wilson continued, and when Brown then jump back to the dealer to take his gun, Wilson fired and killed him. We all know what happened after that.
Why the jury, after reviewing all the evidence, decided not to prosecute the police for a crime? Because the evidence confirmed the account he was responsible for the investigation soon after. Why is that the evidence is still there, the shooting scene quickly became the center of a major disruption of civil? Because the first police officer responded to this shooting involved doing the best they can to preserve important evidence. The young Mr Brown was pronounced dead at the scene, and while many later complained that his body was left where he fell too long, at the end of which is essential to enable researchers scene perform careful measurements to determine exactly what happened. Ironically, if the angry mob is not broken, these measurements and photographs can be taken early, and the body moves much earlier. The purpose of servicing the needs of justice in the investigation of truth, must always prevail over the pain of those who do not understand the task and the law.
Record The Truth
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LEO When you first arrive on the scene, you have a lot of responsibility and it is clearly a priority. First, of course, is security, you, that fellow officers and innocent that may be on the scene. If criminals are present, must be contained and controlled. Low gather evidence on the priority list saving function.
But once that things are under control, gathering evidence is important. Consider the case of two, Iowa. No witnesses were present when the author was ambushed officer who was writing a report in a parked patrol car. The attacker falls through the window and grabbed the driver by the throat with one hand and a pistol from the holster with the other, shouting that he would kill her. Officers had to shoot the attacker, who was paralyzed for life by a shot fired, then claimed that the officer out of the patrol car and "shot him for nothing."
Fortunately, one of the first officers who responded to the shooting scene confiscated the camera of the patrol car and photographed rosette pass where the subject officer had been ripped by strangulation attempt. This criticism is to get the number of the police defense verdict, the first when the officers found a criminal on shooting, and again in civil court when he and his department have been prosecuted.
I was retained as an expert witness in two cases, and also in the following two cases, which shows the importance of collecting initial evidence to reach a fair result which does not happen in the case involving the LEO. Three cases occurred in Tennessee, photographs of female shooter punch wounds he received from her ex-husband was taken by the first officer to respond, and they are important for the liberation of his win on the basis of defending himself when he tried to murder.
In the case of four in West Virginia, close-up spent casings retrieved at the scene of a plan by the staff of the police state is an important factor in a murder trial in which the prosecution has allowed five first shots were fired in self-defense, but the latter two would murder after the execution of attacker run 40 feet and collapse. Shell casing damage has shown that the two latter issued casing was apparently taken on the set in the palm of booting notched or stretcher tires meet emergency personnel and dislodged near where the body was found. Once the evidence has been explained, the result only exemption in the shooting self-defense, not an unfair sentence that will be mandated "life without parole."
From the back a century or more of history, we find examples where attention first agent to respond to the details in a scene in a locked murder conviction for the real killer. In the case of Lima, the famous bandit of the Far West is Elfego Read Sheriff Socorro County, New Mexico, where the murder scene, he ordered an MP for human waste found nearby and put the product in cans. Later, he met with a suspect who is so nervous he had to rest for emergency saddle. Sheriff Read has a representative, except that the "evidence" on the other cans. A unique model of equivalent kind of chili beans evidence and help bring a killer to justice.

Serving Justice
Most people today, including LEO, making regular smartphone that can capture images and video. Once the scene is contained, consider a quick video scan this scene. The camera can only capture later determined to be important evidence that gets moved or lost in the hubbub of paramedics and other first responders. May also catch a witness who left the scene so that they can be contacted and then fill in the missing piece of the puzzle of evidence. (If liar false witnesses then appeared to testify against a policeman who shot in self-defense, the video can also allow police to lawyers say, "If you really there all the time, why do not appear in the 360 ​​-degree panoramic video was taken when You say that you are there? ")
Photographing each involved (or other parties active in the shot) official from head to toe. Dirt or snow or leaves behind a uniform officer can be brushed from the time they leave the scene and when they get to the police station for interrogation, and can prove that they were on the floor in the struggle for their life if captured by photography. Anyone who has been fighting should be examined for at least 48 hours for the bruises that appeared later, which should be recorded photography. It can mean the difference between truth and falsehood in force is regarded as truth.
Very often, the truth is the same as justice. But the evidence necessary to support the truth, and the evidence is very durable, which is why the collection of evidence must be in the list of requirements for first officers to respond.


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