These are carefully drafted written questions seeking facts that form the basis of opinions and the sources of those facts. They are convenient, expeditious, inexpensive vehicles of discovery.

Team Presentation Question: In what year did Kirk Bloodsworth write a book and establish a grant program?

A method for interpreting statutes, regulations, and constitutional provisions in which judges attempt to determine what the drafters intended to accomplish by passing the law.

In the case of Kumho Tire Co., Ltd. v. Carmichael, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the trial court is required to hold a Daubert hearing every time expert testimony is challenged.

Each of the following factors contribute to miscarriages of justice except

In 1910, this forensic expert started a two-room police laboratory in the Lyons Police Department attic with only two assistants.

Properties of evidence that can be associated only with a group and never a single source are known as:

This motion seeks to force the opposition to provide evidence that has been refused.

Informants who are directly involved in the criminal acts that they are providing information about. That is, they participated in the crime in some way.

A miscarriage of justice in which a criminal suspect is taken into law enforcement custody for specific charges and probable cause is absent or has been fabricated, or there is a violation of agency policy, individual civil rights, or the law.