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Question
Following are seven essay questions. You are required to complete four of these questions. Your answers are to be typed and double spaced, using 12 point type and standard margins. Be sure to fully answer each question. You are free to use your textbook and lecture notes. Do not use outside research in your answer. Be sure to identify and state the question you are answering. These questions are to be turned in by the end of class time on March 25th. These must be turned in at class; e-mail submissions will not be accepted.
1. Identify and discuss the goals of the criminal investigative process.
2. Discuss and provide examples of corpus delicti evidence, cumulative evidence, associative evidence, identification, evidence, and behavioral evidence.
3. Define and explain testimonial evidence, real evidence, documentary evidence and demonstrative evidence.
4. Identify the "Miranda Warning" and describe the circumstances under which the police must notify a suspects of their Miranda Rights.
5. Discuss the roles or functions of physical evidence in the criminal investigation process, and describe how physical evidence can service as direct evidence or circumstantial evidence in criminal investigations.
6. Define interrogations and explain how they differ from an interview. Be sure to address the legal issues that differ between the two.
7. List and discuss the qualities that evidence must have in order for it to be admissible in court.