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Forensic-medecine.info welcomes you to a free, easy to use resource for general information about forensic medicine as science.  This is an excellent place to find information about the real specialists shows like C.S.I. are based on.  Feel free to read some of the information posted on the left and you will find answers to all your questions about foresics and forensic scientists.

Forensic-medecine.info is a is intended as a «all in one site» about forensic science, a site for people with an interest in forensics. The information contained being kept on site is for informational purposes only, and is not the opinion of any employers of the forensic scientists. All opinions provided by the forensic experts on this site cannot be considered as «binding» because a forensic scientist must have access to all available salient physical evidence to render a proper expert opinion.

Forensic science is the application of the scientific method to help the judicial system. As a forensic scientist one must be impartial, and only draw conclusions based on what the evidence shows. A forensic scientist might be asked if other scenarios are possible, and even if other scenarios are as strongly supported by the evidence as the scientist’s opinion, the expert must admit it when other scenarios are possible.

This is does not mean that anything is possible. In many instances in science, scientific certainty simply means that probability of any other option is so remote it is a practical impossibility.

Today forensic scientists are claimed by courts, law enforcement, defendants, and plaintiffs to analyze evidence and report conclusions. Sometimes forensic experts are asked to be an expert witnesses in court and report those findings to a trier of fact.

Always remember that when forensic experts are in the courtroom they are impartial to either side, regardless of which side listed them as a witness, and regardless of the demeanors of the lawyers during the court session. While forensic expert may be at the top of game in the laboratory, in the courthouse the lawyers have the upper hand. They know the rules, and forensic expert little recourses once on the stand. Expert hopes while on the stand to escape a serious verbal beating, is to have a good lawyer step in for him. This is rarely the case. You are on your own, and allowing yourself to get emotional during a tough cross-examination will only encourage the lawyers behavior, and probably get the word out to other lawyers that you are «easy prey» the stand. Keep calm, keep professional, get some good training on testimony skills to learn how to defeat/disarm a vigorous cross-examination.