Intro to Criminalistics DB1

In two Supreme Court decisions, Mincey v. Arizona and the Michigan v. Tyler, the Supreme Court advised law enforcement that when time and circumstances permitted, obtaining a search warrant for investigating and recovering physical evidence at the scene was of paramount importance.

• Under what circumstances are warrantless searches and recovery of evidence from a crime scene permissible by law?
• Provide your own short scenario of a crime scene for one of the circumstances that you provided in your initial response and discuss your reasoning why the recovery from that scene would be lawful and proper.
• What circumstances would make that same recovery of evidence from that crime scene improper and illegal?