Assignment: Electronic Evidence and Crime
• Using a search engine with queries such as "legal cases involving digital evidence," "criminal cases involving electronic evidence," and "civil cases involving digital evidence," choose a case. (There is 1 case you cannot choose: it involves Kimmy, Kruse, and Cam).
• Describe the digital evidence used in the case and explain how it supported the investigation.
• Identify how the evidence was found.
• Discuss how the evidence may have been analyzed.
• Be sure to cite the case research in the references.
For this assignment, you will review the case of Kimmy, Kruse, and Cameron. You are expected to search additional sources about the case. You must complete the following:
• Identify what is considered crucial electronic evidence for this case.
• Identify how the police obtained the electronic evidence.
• Discuss what you believe the electronic crime scene is in this case.
• Discuss what electronic evidence you believe was admissible in court from this case.
For this assignment, you will conduct Internet research and create an opinion based on how best to collect evidence from a case involving social media. Please discuss how you would maintain the chain of custody for these types of cases. You will need to consider the following:
• What physical and electronic evidence can you as the investigator obtain?
• How would you safeguard that evidence?
• How would you create a chain of custody for this evidence?
• What are the limitations when protecting evidence only found online or in the cloud?
For this assignment, you will conduct Internet research and discuss the causes for why electronic evidence may be found inadmissible in court. Be sure to address the following:
• Spoliation
• Tampering
• Fruit of the poisonous tree
For this assignment, you will conduct Internet research and create a guide for how you, as an investigator, plan to accomplish the following:
• Collect electronic evidence - list the tools and methods you would use to collect a forensic image of a hard drive while on scene.
• Store electronic evidence - explain best practices for storing, packaging and documenting the evidence found on scene.
• Analyze electronic evidence - what are some ways investigators analyze electronic evidence such as tools, methods and sources of artifacts.
This guide should assume that the evidence will be used in a legal proceeding. You may include templates and forms which you would use while at the crime scene or in the lab (an example would be a sign in and out log for the storage area).
Forensics Research Report document shell
• Use Word
• Title page
o Course number and name
o Project name
o Your name
o Date
• Table of Contents (TOC)
o Use an autogenerated TOC.
o This should be on a separate page.
o This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
o Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
• Section Headings (Create each heading on a new page with "TBD" as the content, except for the section listed under New Content below.)
o Electronic Evidence and Crime
o The Crime Scene
o Chain of Custody Concerns
o Digital Evidence and Admissibility
o Process for Evidence Used in Legal Proceedings
• References.