Case Study: Murder of Ashley Smith

Introduction The purpose of this article is to discuss and analyze law enforcement practices in investigating the murder of Ashley Smith. On the next page I will explain the investigation of the crime scene, the collection of the evidence, the investigation procedure after the investigation of the preliminary crime scene, the interview to the witness and the suspect, and other strategies the agent investigator made. With regard to specific critical evidence, the challenges faced by the constitution emerge, and some of this article analyzes the acceptability of this evidence.

In an article about the recent youth 's "life" of the New York Times, the main article was about the girl' s Ashley Jones case. Ashley said that one (73) of several murderers who were convicted in the country is now sentenced to life imprisonment and the crimes committed at the age of 13 or 14 may not be paroleed. At the age of 14, Ashley helped her boyfriend kill her grandfather and aunt, stabbed them, shot them, and let the fire burn. Ashley also tried to kill Mary Nals, a 10-year-old sister and grandmother, but then woke up from a coma on the 30th and learned that her husband and daughter were dead. When they took Ashley home, Mrs. Nurse and her husband were married for 53 years.

After successfully identifying the victim as Ashley Smith, the next step is to investigate perpetrators, which will result in arrest of perpetrators. To succeed in the investigation, the team used many steps and strategies. The first step is to obtain the complete file of the victim. Her record is not in the computer system as she is not yet a mature adult; therefore, the work of the D / CPL incident is to obtain this information from Mrs. Smith. After interviewing Mrs. Smith, before the death of D / CPL, she learned that Ashley was a high school student and a woman friend named Heather Thomas was there. According to Mrs. Smith, Heather was the last person to meet Ashley. In addition to Heather, Mrs. Smith also mentioned about Jason Phelps who was Ashley's boyfriend. Since Heather and Jason mentioned more names, this information indicates the beginning of the investigation.