Tuesday, October 13, 2015

forensics sciences

  • Dr. Merck assists investigators of animal cruelty with crime scene investigation as well as the examination of live and deceased victims.  She helps with large scale operations including exhumations of burial sites and examination of skeletal animal remains
http://www.veterinaryforensics.com/

  • The ASPCA Veterinary Forensic Sciences Program is also designed for these professionals so they can better document, collect, and preserve evidence from scenes of animal cruelty for the prosecution of the animal crime or for additional demonstrative evidence for the prosecution of the human crime
http://forensics.med.ufl.edu/about/

  • As a forensic science in the strict sense of the term, astronomical knowledge can help resolve certain legal questions. In one reported instance, an astronomer testified in court as an expert witness as to whether a newly built house would cast a shadow on another house. More generally, questions about the sun's or moon's placement in the sky at certain times of day or night may be legally relevant, such as for determining the date on which a photograph was made.It has for instance been reported that Abraham Lincoln once successfully defended a legal case by describing the location of the Moon on the night of the offense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_astronomy