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SPECIAL CRIME INVESTIGATION WITHLEGAL MEDICINESpecial crime investigation - it involves specific and modern investigative techniques in solving a particular crime. - Focuses on physical evidence *The purpose of physical evidence in a crime lab is for identification and comparison. (ex. blood)Command...

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SPECIAL CRIME INVESTIGATION WITH LEGAL MEDICINE Special crime investigation - it involves specific and modern investigative techniques in solving a particular crime. - Focuses on physical evidence *The purpose of physical evidence in a crime lab is for identification and comparison. (ex. blood) Command post - manned by evidence custodian/station to which evidence collected and marked from crime scene are being turned over. - Distance of command post to crime scene is 100ft

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DNA testing - to determine paternity Post-mortem examination - examination done by medico legal officer to the dead body of the victim. (post-mortem = after death, ante-mortem = before death)

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Upon arrival first responders must secure and cordon the area to prevent contamination in the crime scene, and take initial shots of the crime scene. METHODS EMPLOYED IN DOCUMENTING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. - Crime scene photography - Crime scene sketch - Note taking Hans Gross Golden Rule - never MAC (move, alter, change) the position of the physical evidence without documenting it first. Physical evidence must be photograph, measured and indicated in the sketch, documented, collected and marked by the evidence collector with his initials. (ex. Liquid specimens will be put in vial and labeled.) *Labeling is a form of marking. Tagging - establishes the chain of custody, necessary in establishing the integrity of physical evidence. Blood examination

Preliminary test - to determine that the suspected blood specimen is blood. Confirmatory test (Takayama test) confirming the preliminary test . Precipitin test - to determine whether or not the blood is from human origin. Blood typing - purpose of blood typing is for comparison. *To eliminate impossible suspects

Autopsy - general, to determine time and cause of death. Post-mortem examination - to assist the investigator to prove that there is unlawful killing. City of Manila vs. Tomas Cabangis - Case wherein the verdict against the accused was done with the help of photographs as evidence. Elements of Murder (Art. 248) 1. That a person was killed 2. That the accused killed him 3. That the killing was attended by any of the qualifying circumstances mentioned in Art. 248 4. That the killing is not parricide or infanticide Elements of Homicide (Art. 249) 1. That a person is killed 2. That the accused killed him without any justifying circumstance 3. The accused had intention to kill which is presumed 4. The killing was not attended by any of the qualifying circumstances of murder, or by that of parricide or infanticide

Elements of Parricide (Art. 246) 1. Deceased is killed by the accused. 2. Deceased is the: a. Father b. Mother c. Child, whether legitimate or illegitimate d. Legitimate other ascendant or other descendant e. Legitimate spouse of the accused.

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Elements of Infanticide (Art. 255) 1. A child was killed by the accused. 2. Deceased child was less than 3 days old or less than 72 hours of age 3. Accused killed the said child

A. Elements of the crime; crime has been proved if all the elements of the crime are present.

Elements of Intentional Abortion (Art. 256) 1. There is a pregnant woman 2. Violence is exerted, or drugs or beverages administered, or that the accused otherwise acts upon such pregnant woman 3. As a result of the use of violence or drugs or beverages upon her, or any other act of the accused, the fetus dies, either in the womb or after having been expelled therefrom 4. Abortion is intended Elements of Unintentional Abortion (Art. 257) 1. Using any violence upon the person of the pregnant woman 2. By administering drugs or beverages upon such pregnant woman without her consent 3. By administering drugs or beverages with the consent of the pregnant woman Homicide Investigation - applicable to all crimes that involve killing. 1. Established death 2. Identify the deceased 3. Identify the time of death

Homicide - killing which is not murder, infanticide, parricide, definition in article 249 of Revised Penal Code. Q. What would determine the objectives which are to be set and established by the investigator?...