criminalist
Americannoun
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an expert in criminalistics.
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a person who studies or practices criminology; criminologist.
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an expert in criminal law.
Etymology
Origin of criminalist
Example Sentences
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But they didn’t get a match until a criminalist at the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Lab manually plotted the characteristics from one of Morris’s fingers.
From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2020
Paul Bush, a criminalist supervisor with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, testified that the DNA in the blood matched that of Burns.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2020
The defense attorneys also went lightly on Los Angeles police criminalist DeWayne Wolfer, who oversaw the crime-scene investigation.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2018
Some sections read like raw, unfiltered research: one mesmerizing chapter consists entirely of a transcript from Ms. McNamara’s interview with Paul Holes, a criminalist in the Contra Costa sheriff’s office.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2018
I believe that to keep going with merely what the criminalist knows about the matter, belongs to his most difficult tasks.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
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