Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, Jordan Banuelos, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
Guerra, Isela. "The Use of Trigonometry in Blood Spatter". Parkland College. 2014. Web. Apr. 1, 2016.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed.  
I recreated a crime scene just as blood spatter experts do to see how the the scene took place. I replicated blood spatter from real gun shot spatter cases and I conducted an analysis on the spatter. I then used blood spatter to create a dramatic effect as would happen on t.v. shows.
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   
My work shows the realistic process of how blood spatter is analysed at a crime scene and how blood spatter is used for dramatic purposes on television. My work shows the contrast between the CSI effect.











(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
This component helped me answer my EQ by showing me that blood spatter is more a source to figure out what essentially happened at the crime scene not as a piece of evidence to secure a suspect. 

Blog 21 - Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
I learned that while in court the role of a CSI is strictly to present evidence to the jury. They give facts not a story. A CSI only speaks when spoken to. I also learned just how much the CSI effect can have a negative influence on a jury.

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?
It taught me that I don't need to add in the dramatics, just keep the facts.

Click HERE to listen to the interview.

Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan to interview my mentor Tony Nyguen. Mr. Nyguen has been a CSI for 17 years and works at Pomona P.D. Forensics department.


2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. Do you have any additional information since the last time we spoke?
2. What is the role of a CSI in a court room?
3. Do you have to convince the jury that the suspect is guilty or do you just present your evidence?
4. What is the CSI effect?
5. Is the CSI effect a major problem with the jury?
6. How would you go about disproving the CSI effect?
7. How does the defense try to discredit your evidence?
8. How do you respond when your evidence is being questioned?
9. Does your response stop the defense from questioning that particular piece of evidence?
10. While you are up on the stand, does the prosecution help you persuade the jury?
11. What would you say is the most irrefutable piece of evidence?
12. Why is that evidence the most irrefutable?
13. How would the defense go about trying to discredit that piece of evidence?
14. What would be your response?
15. Can conviction be made with only that piece of evidence?
16.   Is there any unspoken rule of being a CSI in court?
17. What is the importance of fingerprints?
18. What is the importance of blood spatter?
19. What is the importance of DNA?
20. How do you end your time on the stand?

Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ 

What evidence can best be used to convince a jury of guilt beyond reasonable doubt?

• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

DNA is the best source of evidence to convince a jury of guilt beyond reasonable doubt because, the chances of 2 individuals having the exact same DNA are almost nonexistent and DNA evidence is veryaccurate at placing suspects at a scene.

• 3 details to support the answer

DNA gives access to an individualsome genetic make up, DNA can be found nearly anywhere, DNA evidence is typically infallible. 

The research source(s) to support your details and answer

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/how-dna-evidence-works.html

http://nij.gov/topics/forensics/evidence/dna/basics/pages/analyzing.aspx

• Concluding Sentence

DNA evidence is one of the most newest and strongest pieces of evidence out there.

Blog 18 :Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
What evidence can best be used to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt.
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Fingerprints are the best piece of evidence because they are unique and simple and cost effective to process.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Blood spatter is the best peice of evidence because it is unique and gives a time frame and details otherwise unobtainable.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
Murder
Suicide
Assult
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
Blood Spatter sourcebook.
6.  What other source supports your answer?
Experience.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
Blood spatter can show exactly how and when a crime happened.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  
The most important thing I learned from this interview is how important it is to know the instructor and outs of your case.2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?
I would say I have definitely been more direct in my current interviews now, opposed to my first interview.

Click HERE to listen to the interview.

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Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

Please review the component contract in the senior project packet.   The Independent Component 2 is an opportunity for you to add a dimension of creativity and/or an additional outlet for research.  The goal of the component is for you to explore your answers in more depth.  On Friday, April 22, 2014, you will be turning in the following to your blog to prove completion of this component:

• Blog post answering specific questions posted by senior team
• Log of hours clearly delineated as Independent Component 2 on the senior project hours spreadsheet (with total number of hours included)
• Evidence of the 30 hours of work (e.g. transcript, essays, tests, art work, photographs) as digital artifacts   

For this blog post and approval, please answer the following questions.

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
I will be creating a mock crime scene of a domestic stabbing and suicide. This mock case will display how blood spatter is used to solve criminal cases. I will be working with Omar Orsornio, who will be photographing the process. Omar will also work to show how certain images can tell a story and emotionally influence an audience, a jury in this case. Blood spatter and photography are both used to tell stories.


2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
To display our 30 hours of work Omar Orsornio and I will provide photographs of the building of the crime scene and setting up equipment. We will also provide photographs of the actual processing of blood spatter and the stringing method.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
It will help to display how blood spatter can be used as evidence to convince a jury of guilt. 


4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Your answers to the questions should be supported with details and examples for the senior team to understand what you plan to do.   Once we review your Blog Post 16, your house teacher will discuss with you the approval of your plan.  If it is approved, please start working on it.  If it is not approved, your house teacher will explain why.  It is your job to address the concerns so you can get your component approved.  Additionally, any changes requested must be addressed to your house teacher well in advance of the completion date for full credit on the assignment.