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Assignment: Criminal Investigation

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Instructions

Analyze the following scenario, and answer the questions at the end of the scenario.

While investigating a murder scene, police gather evidence that includes a dead body with a gun shot wound to the chest, bloody fingerprints on the front of the victim's shirt, a gun on the floor close to the body, and bloody shoe prints leaving the scene. Investigators determine that the gun belonged to the victim, and the bloody fingerprints was the victim's blood, but the fingerprints belonged to the victim's business partner. No blood was on the shoes of the victim. Through investigation, it was determined that the bloody shoe prints matched the size and type of shoes that the business partner had bought at an expensive department store one week prior to the incident. The prints did not match the shoe size or style of shoes owned by the victim.

I. What direct physical evidence connects the business partner to the crime scene?

II. What circumstantial evidence connects the business partner to the scene?

III. Using deductive reasoning, what can you conclude about the acquaintance's involvement solely from the direct physical evidence?

IV. Using inductive reasoning, what might you conclude considering circumstantial evidence?

V. What would be your best theory of the case? Get the instant assignment help.

VI. List the two or three types of physical evidence that you wish would have been answered in the scenario that would be most important for solving this case.