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  • 1. Which state's Supreme Court was the first to accept expert testimony regarding bloodstains?
A) Mississippi
B) Michigan
C) Ohio
D) California
  • 2. Who was the biochemistry and criminalistics professor who testified in the 1966 Sam Sheppard case?
A) Herbert Leon MacDonell
B) Sam Sheppard
C) Paul L. Kirk
D) Daniel Attinger
  • 3. In the Sam Sheppard case, what did the bloodstain evidence allegedly prove?
A) The murderer was right-handed
B) The murder was premeditated
C) The murderer was left-handed
D) The victim was standing
  • 4. Who is credited with promoting the wide use of bloodstain pattern analysis?
A) Herbert Leon MacDonell
B) The National Academy of Sciences
C) Paul L. Kirk
D) Daniel Attinger
  • 5. What is the title of the 1971 book that published MacDonell's research on bloodstains?
A) Criminalistics and Blood Dynamics
B) Principles of Bloodstain Analysis
C) The Science of Forensic Bloodstains
D) Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood
  • 6. Where did MacDonell conduct his early experiments by slinging his own blood?
A) In a state laboratory in Mississippi
B) In the basement of his house in Corning, New York
C) At Columbia University
D) In a police department facility in California
  • 7. In what year was the first formal bloodstain training course held?
A) 1973
B) 1966
C) 1983
D) 1957
  • 8. How much instruction did many of the newly trained bloodstain analysts often receive?
A) A university degree
B) As little as 40 hours
C) At least 500 hours
D) Two years of clinical training
  • 9. Which organization was founded in 1983 to help develop the field of bloodstain pattern analysis?
A) National Academy of Sciences
B) International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
C) American Board of Criminalistics
D) Forensic Fluid Dynamics Society
  • 10. What report from 2009 criticized the credentials of bloodstain analysts?
A) The MacDonell Study
B) National Academy of Sciences report
C) The Forensic International Handbook
D) The California Supreme Court Review
  • 11. Who published a 2013 paper arguing that many central hypotheses of bloodstain analysis remain untested?
A) The Sam Sheppard Defense Team
B) Daniel Attinger
C) Paul L. Kirk
D) Herbert Leon MacDonell
  • 12. What theoretical framework did Daniel Attinger propose to improve bloodstain analysis?
A) Criminalistics
B) Biochemistry
C) Fluid dynamics
D) Statistical profiling
  • 13. How have judges generally reacted to the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report?
A) They immediately banned the evidence
B) They have largely ignored it
C) They adopted the report's recommendations
D) They mandated stricter training
  • 14. Which entity funded the research that led to the book 'Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood'?
A) International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts
B) Columbia University
C) California Supreme Court
D) United States Department of Justice
  • 15. What happened between 1880 and 1957 in courts in Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, and California regarding bloodstain evidence?
A) They required juries to undergo training
B) They fully accepted it as standard practice
C) They exclusively used bloodstain analysis for all criminal cases
D) They rejected expert testimony for bloodspatter analysis
  • 16. BPA should not be confused with which field?
A) Haemotaphonomy
B) Forensic pathology
C) Serology
D) Ballistics
  • 17. When did the National Academy of Sciences release a report criticizing the scientific nature of BPA?
A) 1958
B) 2021
C) 1995
D) 2009
  • 18. Who published the first modern study of blood stains in 1895?
A) P. Kish
B) S. James
C) Dr. Eduard Piotrowski
D) LeMoyne Snyder
  • 19. What animals were used in the first modern BPA experiments by Dr. Eduard Piotrowski?
A) Dogs
B) Mice
C) Monkeys
D) Rabbits
  • 20. Which book, first published in 1941, briefly mentioned details later expanded upon by BPA experts?
A) Bloodstain Analysis Principles
B) The Dragnet Guide to Forensics
C) Homicide Investigation
D) The Forensic Handbook
  • 21. In what decade did BPA experts start claiming to use biology and physics to reconstruct crime scenes?
A) 1930s
B) 1970s
C) 1890s
D) 1950s
  • 22. Which media source referenced bloodstain pattern analysis in 1952?
A) A New York Times article
B) A scientific journal
C) A Dragnet radio episode
D) A television documentary
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