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INVESTIGATORY POWER – the power given to
governmental agencies and other entities to
investigate violations of laws and to gather
information regarding laws that are proposed to be
enacted

INVOLUNTARY – unwillingly; being forced; opposed;
in criminal law can act as a defense to a charge of
committing a crime.

IODINE – a dye used in developing latent prints on
porous (particularly paper) and nonporous
surfaces; one of the oldest and most proven means
of locating prints.

IODINE FUMING – a technique in which crystals of
iodine are exposed to heat source for the purpose
of revealing latent fingerprints.

IPSO FACTO – by the fact or act itself.

IRRATIONAL CRIMES – are committed without
intent; offender does not know the nature of his
act.

IRRELEVANT EVIDENCE – is that which has no
tendency in reason to establish the probability or
improbability of a fact issue.

IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE TEST – it provides that an
accused cannot be guilty by reason of insanity
because his mind was in a diseased and unsound
state, and that the disease existed to a high degree
which overwhelmed the reason, conscience, and
judgment of the person who acted from an
irresistible and uncontrollable impulse.

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