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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Afterward, Dmitry Gorin, one of Grossman’s lawyers, called Orange County lab criminalist Kelly Brown to testify.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2022
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
That knowledge of human nature is for this purpose most important to the criminalist will be as little challenged as the circumstance that such knowledge can not be acquired from books.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
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