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After Julius is assinated a physician preforms an autopsy and finds only one of the 23 wounds were fatal
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Fingerprints are used for identification for the first time by taking a debtors prints
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First record of physical evidence being used to solve a murder case, a piece of torn newspaper was found in a pistol and was matched to the newspaper in his pocket
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Chemical processes are used to determine if arsenic was the cause of death in a murder trail
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First time in the us that photos are used for identification
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A paper is published describing the uniqueness of all fingerprints, and it is adapted for use in the court
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The Coroner's act established that coroners were to determine cause of death in sudden, violent and unnatural deaths
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The first study on hair is published and the first legal case involving hair took place shortly afterwards
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It is discovered that all guns will have slightly different barrels which leave unique grooves on each bullet allowing the matching of fired bullets to the guns that fired them
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DNA fingerprinting techniques developed and used in first case in 1983 where the original suspect was cleared due to DNA evidence and DNA evidence is found to be reliable in 1996
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