Case Study: Murder of Ashley Smith Essay -- Scott Jones, Frederick Joh

IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the practices conducted by law enforcement during the investigation of the murder of Ashley Smith. The following pages go forth discuss the crime moving-picture show investigation, the evidence collection, the investigative steps following the initial crime scene investigation, the interviews of witnesses and suspects, and other strategies performed by the acting case investigators. total challenges have surfaced regarding specific pieces of critical evidence and a section of this paper will analyze the admissibility of this evidence. Lastly this cases law enforcement processes will be contrasted with textbook processes in an effort to determine the validity of the cases outcome. The execration SceneOn 11/3/00, two truck drivers sight the deceased consistency of fourteen-year-old Ashley Smith in a wooded area behind the Pizza Hut, located on Old Annapolis Rd. Local regime were dispatched and D/CPL. Glenn Case was designated as the primary investigator on the case. Upon arrival, D/CPL. Case observed that the medical examiner had already examined the body, evidence had been collected, photographs of the crime scene had been taken both on ground and from a helicopter (aerial view), and D/CPL. Case was advised that the victim had not yet been identified. The victims body had what appeared to be several stab wounds to her neck and abdominal area. D/CPL Case will later be advised by medical examiners that the victim had been stabbed thirty-four times and had also been manually strangled. The victims body was positioned with her head facing towards the Pizza Hut parking lot. The positioning coupled with bloody puff of air marks on the concrete suggested that the victim had been ... ...e resulted arrest of the suspects reflects this applicably. ReferencesBond, J. (2007). Value of DNA Evidence in Detecting Crime. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 52(1), 128-136.Moston, S., & Engelberg, T. (2011). The E ffects of Evidence on the Outcome of Interviews with Criminal Suspects. Police Practice & Research, 12(6), 518 - 526.State by State Compliance. (2010). Retrieved from http//www.vegress.com/index.php/can-i-record-calls-in-my-stateSwanson, C. R., Chamelin, N. C., & Territo, L. (2012). Criminal investigation. New York McGraw-Hill Higher Education.Technical Working Group on Crime Scene Investigation (2000). Crime Scene Investigation A Guide for Law Enforcement-Research Report (NCJ 178280). Retrieved from U.S. Department of Justice website http//www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communications/fsc/april2000/twgcsi.pdf