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System Forensics, Investigation, and Response, 3rd Edition
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System Forensics, Investigation, and Response, 3rd Edition

by Chuck Easttom
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
11h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Legal and Procedural Trends

The legal environment in which forensics is conducted changes slowly, but it does change. Normally, the enactment of new laws has very little effect on how evidence is examined—rather, it affects how it is seized. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a case in June 2013 allowing law enforcement officers to collect DNA evidence from suspects without their consent in certain cases. This significantly changes the collection of evidence, but not the analysis of it.

Changes in the Law

Some laws do make changes to the process of seizing evidence. Laws can alter the requirements for a warrant, exceptions to warrant requirements, and issues of consent to search.

The USA Patriot Act

The most obvious change ...

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