CSI Miami Episode # 505 “Death Eminent”

(2 votes, aver­age: 5.00 out of 5)
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Plot syn­op­sis is located here.

They did some really inter­est­ing time lapse pho­tog­ra­phy effects to show how a body decom­poses. While pretty gory, it was very inter­est­ing to see.

But onto the foren­sic aspects of the show:

1) Swabbing an old fin­ger­print smudge from a metal sur­face and run­ning it in a GC (/MS?) allowed the team to dis­cover that the per­son who touched the sur­face smoked Cuban cig­ars. OK, MAYBE they could tell there was tobacco residue, but it’s these mag­i­cal CSI TV show data­bases that let them know it was from a cigar, and not only that, but a CUBAN cigar.

2) They were able to match tool­marks in the vic­tims bones back to the tool used to kill them. Well, actu­ally that’s fine. I just wanted to point that fact out.

But the best part of the episode was Caine get­ting to arrest the dirty judge that had killed some­one before, and was work­ing with the land devel­oper to low-ball the value of people’s houses that were being declared emi­nent domain. Governments that abuse emi­nent domain pow­ers are an exam­ple of the true evil gov­ern­ment can visit on peo­ple. And a dirty judge is the weak­est link in our government’s sys­tem of checks and bal­ances, be it cav­ing into spe­cial inter­ests or judi­cial activism.