A multidisciplinary approach is mandatory to solve complex crimes: a case report
| Autor: | Marcello Rendine, Michela Ferrara, Francesco Sessa, Stefania De Simone, Pietrantonio Ricci, Francesca Maglietta, Monica Salerno, Giuseppe Bertozzi, Lorenzo Spagnolo, Natascha Pascale, Irene Riezzo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Teamwork
lcsh:R5-920 Health (social science) Common law media_common.quotation_subject Genetic analysis Poison control Human factors and ergonomics Multidisciplinary team Crime scene reconstruction Suicide prevention Pathology and Forensic Medicine Forensic canine unit crime scene reconstruction forensic canine unit genetic analysis touch DNA Touch DNA Multidisciplinary approach Homicide Law lcsh:K1-7720 lcsh:Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence Psychology lcsh:Medicine (General) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2090-5939 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s41935-019-0116-8 |
| Popis: | Background Self-defense is legitimate both in common law and in civil law systems. Nevertheless, there remains the age-old question for the prosecutor to identify the limit between the righteous self-defense and the self-defense with excessive force. In these cases, the gathering of all evidence by a forensic multidisciplinary team is essential to provide the necessary data for the prosecutor’s evaluation. Case presentation The case of a 55-year-old man who was killed in front of his neighbor’s house is described. The prosecutor alerted the forensic team, classifying the crime as a gunshot homicide. The neighbor immediately admitted his responsibility as self-defense. Moreover, the relatives of the victim told a different version of the story, assuring that the neighbor had killed him for futile motivations. For these reasons, the prosecutor established further investigations, such as autopsy, the K-9 unit exploration, and alerting the forensic biologist for analysis. Conclusions This case aims to highlight the teamwork of multidisciplinary forensic expertise to solve complex cases; moreover, combining ultra-specialist forensic activities, such as the K-9 unit, it is possible to collect all the evidence to submit to the prosecutor for the formulation of judgment. |
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