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The document summarizes the author's experience visiting a crime lab. They saw firsthand how forensic evidence is analyzed to solve crimes, including fingerprint analysis, chemical testing of evidence, and polygraph tests. Visiting the various sections of the lab gave the author a better understanding of the meticulous forensic process used to determine guilt and the evidence that can be raised against suspects in court. The experience strengthened the author's motivation to study law and enhanced their knowledge beyond just textbooks.

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Crime Lab

The document summarizes the author's experience visiting a crime lab. They saw firsthand how forensic evidence is analyzed to solve crimes, including fingerprint analysis, chemical testing of evidence, and polygraph tests. Visiting the various sections of the lab gave the author a better understanding of the meticulous forensic process used to determine guilt and the evidence that can be raised against suspects in court. The experience strengthened the author's motivation to study law and enhanced their knowledge beyond just textbooks.

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REACTION PAPER IN LEGAL MEDICINE

(CRIME LAB VISIT)

Forensic Science has been used to uncover mysteries, solve crimes, and convict
or exonerate suspects of crime for hundred of years. As technology infiltrates every
aspect of our lives, it is no wonder that solving crimes has become almost futuristic in its
advances. During the forensic science process, forensic equipment is used to process
samples and evidence and hopefully to solve the crime, by using all the of the available
information about and the evidence which may be gathered from a crime scene to
determine who committed it and to bring the same to the court of justice.

Last September 20, 2019, we had a PNP Crime Laboratory visit where we get to
experience the real life scenes of the popular American legal drama television “How to
Get Away With Murder” the main character of which is a criminal defense attorney and a
professor of a prestigious law school, who selected five of her students who were all first
years and all aspiring law students to intern at her office, but were later on entangled in
an aberrant murder --- just like our crime lab visit, I got to witness how the real life crimes
are being handled.

I learned that there are more to Forensics and not autopsy of the body. The
forensics were divided into different sections namely the paraffin testing where a paraffin
wax is poured on the alleged suspects to determine if a recent discharging of firearm has
been done by said person, the chemistry section of the laboratory where chemicals
present in evidences and used weapons are being examined and tested by the forensic
scientists. Also, we have the most common and popular section, which is the Fingerprint
Examination --- which section with the use of their modern technology in detecting from
whom does the fingerprint present in the evidence examined belong to, or better worded,
“who killed John Doe?”

Lastly, there is also the polygraph section, which is more known by the
laymans as the “lie detector test”. A lie detector test is not a valid reliance on the
test whether or not the person subjected to it is telling the truth or not.
Given this rare opportunity to witness the making and processing of the
most meticulous part of determining who is the accused, the guilt of the accused,
and the necessary evidence that can be raised against them which can be
accurately determined by using the different sections of the laboratory is beyond
astonishing. As an aspiring law student, I am more determined and motivated to
study more in order to better enhance the scope of my knowledge by
experiencing this exceptional and brilliant part of Forensic Science and not just
confining myself with reading and memorizing the laws.

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