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?