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In the United States, both the federal government and the states have authority to indict for criminal wrongdoing. The federal government and each state have their own criminal statutes, court system, prosecutors, and police agencies. Use your textbook, the Internet, and/or Strayer University Online Library (https://research.strayer.edu) to research articles from within the past three years on crime trial, prosecutor, and criminal investigator.
Write a 4- to 5-page paper in which you:
- Put yourself in the role of a prosecutor and explain the importance of the final report to the prosecution of a case. Further, analyze the possible impact of poorly completed final reports on the prosecution of a case.
- Review Figure 21.1, The Use of Evidence in the Stages of the Criminal Justice Process, in Chapter 21 of the text and specify the manner in which each stage of the criminal justice process helps to build a successfully litigated action. Provide a rationale to support the response.
- Identify the three areas that Detective Richard Gautsch, a seasoned investigator, recommends an investigator focus on when giving courtroom testimony and discuss the importance of each area. Next, define a criminal investigator's role in preparing a case for court. Analyze the manner in which the investigator cooperates with the prosecutor to enhance the courtroom presentation.
- Differentiate not guilty and acquitted. Give your opinion as to whether or not a not guilty verdict means that the investigator failed. Support the position.
- Predict one to two changes that will take place in criminal investigation in the next twenty years. Provide a rationale to support the response.
- Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar types of websites do not qualify as academic resources.
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Running head: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
Criminal investigations
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CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS
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A prosecutor is of great importance to any court system in the sense that one is
responsible for determining cases that can be prosecuted and those that cannot (Neubauer &
Fradella, 2018). However, in the determination of cases that can be or cannot be prosecuted, as a
prosecutor I would greatly depend on the final report. When the final report is effective then the
case will probably be prosecuted. I would ensure that the final report drafted by the investigator
should withstand minute scrutiny by various officers and individuals including; the prosecutors,
judges, citizens of the country, defense counsels and even the media.
I would ensure that the investigator drafts a good final report that meet the threshold. A
well drafted final report should present the facts of the case at length, the accused history of
crime, the available type of evidences that the prosecution intents to rely upon, the names of the
witnesses who are going to support the evidences listed, other relevant people whom the
prosecutor can rely upon if further information is required and the exact and clear chronology of
events during the crime causation and its subsequent investigation.
I would ensure that the investigator draft a well analyzed final report with all the above
elements presented in that, it is in the final report that determines whether the case will stand
trial. It is important to write a thorough and clear final report in that, a poor final report may lead
to a case not standing a trial and this will hence result to the offenders walking free. It ...
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