Forensic Sceintists

Forensic scientists play a large part in many investigations as it is their job to take the evidence that was found at the scene by the scenes of crime officers and research and analyse this evidence so that it can be linked to the crime that had occurred. There are many different types of specialist forensic scientists who deal with specific types of evidence such as biological pieces of evidence and physical pieces of evidence. A forensic scientist rarely has to leave the laboratory as the evidence is sent directly to them to analyse and research. However some forensics scientists can specialize in visiting a crime scene and briefly analyzing the evidence at the scene before they thoroughly analyse the evidence at a laboratory, by doing this they can get an overview and a better idea of the evidence which will help when they actually start to look into and research the evidence. If a forensic scientist attended a different investigation their roles and responsibilities would stay the same as they are only their to research and analyse the evidence, the only thing that would change would be the types of evidence sent in from each case.


OJ Simpson:

In the OJ Simpson case where OJ Simpson allegedly killed Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman there was one main forensic scientist who was Henry Lee, along with the rest of his team which helped him to examine the evidence found by the scenes of crime officers. His main role in the investigation team was to examine and analyse the evidence found at the scene and then pass his findings onto the detective (Mark Fuhram) so he could piece together the evidence and link OJ to the crime scene. His job was made quite difficult thanks to the scenes of crime officers as a lot of the evidence that was sent to Henry Lee was contaminated in some way which meant that he could not analyse the evidence, this meant that it could not be used in court. There were even problems with the uncontaminated evidence as it was very poorly collected and the tags on the evidence bags were not correctly filled out which resulted in a lot of problems for Henry Lee and his team.