Describe the laboratory tests which should be performed.

Question
1. You are the defense attorney for a client that has been charged with causing a death by reckless driving and failing to stop and report an accident (hit and run). The police have told you that there is forensic paint evidence which links your client’s car to the victim but the report has not yet been released to you. How will the paint have been examined by the forensic scientist and what do you anticipate will be the strengths and weaknesses of the resulting evidence? In cross-examining the forensic scientist, what issues would you develop in order to minimize the impact of the paint evidence?

2. As the detective on call you arrive at the location of an apparent hit and run vehicular incident with no known witnesses to the crash. A pedestrian has been killed. Scattered over the roadway are small fragments of orange and white plastic and small cubes of glass, which are being collected by the police.

How would you expect the continuity of this evidence be assured?

Describe the laboratory tests which should be performed.

What will be the likely evidential value of the results?

3. You are a detective at home when shots have been fired at the door of your house from a passing vehicle. The police have arrested the three occupants of the vehicle and seized a double-barreled shotgun and a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol.

What evidence should be collected for submission to the laboratory? H

ow should it be collected?

What tests should be performed and why?

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