I am really happy that I get to do something like XONR8 this year. For those of you who don't know, this project has us working with the California Innocence Project in a really cool way. We get actual current files of people who have sent in an application to the C.I.P. asking for them to help them be exonerated (saved from punishment brought on from wrongful conviction). We need to decide whether or not the C.I.P. takes our case file. It really is heavy when you think about it. Most of the case files are from people who are currently condemned to be in prison for either life or long enough so that when they come out whatever they had left outside is long gone. So it really puts pressure on you to think that if you mess up you are basically robbing somebody of their life. Well it wouldn't be all you're fault since the justice system would be the thing to blame but still, making the wrong choice could either set a criminal free or lock up an innocent person. I try to not look at this humanly, not sympathize with the appellant. I only need to know the facts. So far I feel that it's been going pretty well. We've been able to piece together quite a bit of information and evidence. But we're only just getting started, we still need to present to a panel of lawyers. So we need to work on our presentation amongst other things. I'm glad I have the chance to do this though. It really isn't many students at all who get to do something anything like this so I'm excited, maybe a bit worried, but excited.
This is, in my opinion, the coolest thing we've done so far. So we were given autopsy files then we were asked to find out what that person died of. More specifically we were supposed to find the cause, manner, and mechanism of death. We made a big old document out of the thing. I am proud to say I was able to find out exactly what happened to our victim! When I was doing this my partner was well (activate eloquence) in need of further enrichment and or engagement to provide sufficient resources and effort to the completion of this project therefore condemning me to the bulk of the process. Dang, that was good! This project also has a great example of one of my blunders. At the end of the autopsy file I put in a little joke that ended up with me getting a few points taken off for professionalism. But hey fun fact, Thomas Jefferson had to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence because everyone thought Benjamin Franklin would put a joke in it (as he was prone to do with most papers he wrote). So basically I'm on the same level as Benjamin Franklin, deal with it!
Here's the link to my group's presentation on blood spatter. I also just want to clarify that i worked on the section that says "How to recreate a Crime Scene Using Blood Spatter". So base my work off that section, because as you may have observed the rest of the sections really need plentiful presentation in order to excel. Oh, I put that so eloquently it hurts!
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