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A 6 page research paper that, first of all, presents a scenario from the assignment and then discusses whether or not the police investigation described in the scenario was properly conducted. Citing several Supreme Court cases, the writer argues that the police officers should have obtained a search warrant before searching a suspect's room. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: D0_khcsilaw.rtf
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not pay rent. Mrs. Ellis finds a man whom she recognizes as a neighbor, Clyde Stevens, lying on the floor unresponsive in her closet with a butcher knife in his
back. Mrs. Ellis calls 911. Minutes later, police and EMS personnel arrive. Mr. Stevens is pronounced dead. Mrs. Ellis, a senior citizen, is transported to the hospital for observation, quite
distraught. Police establish a crime scene and call for detectives and crime scene specialists, who arrive and begin to investigate. Detectives begin a canvass and interview Clyde Stevens wife, Sheila.
Mrs. Stevens tells police that William Ellis has entered her townhouse several times unannounced and on one occasion appeared to be trying to get into her bed. Mrs. Stevens gives
the police consent to search the house for any potential evidence that might identify her husbands killer. Crime scene investigators actively process the scene. In Williams bedroom, technicians develop a
blood fingerprint adjacent to a light switch, using an amino acid stain, after locating the print using the absorptive properties of blood and a portable argon laser. The crime scene
investigator photographs the print and recovers a sample of the blood for DNA analysis. The print is from the right index finger of William Ellis, and DNA analysis matches the
blood to Clyde Stevens. On the basis of this and associated evidence from the Stevens and Ellis residences, an arrest warrant is issued for William Ellis. William is arrested in
Utah and extradited to Illinois to stand trial. His lawyer files a motion to exclude evidence. Discussion of the crime scene investigation in this case The search of a
crime scene is, in many ways, the most significant phase of an criminal investigation due to the fact that the courts have become strict about the admissibility of testimonial evidence,
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