Please address the following in detail Essays - Mexican Drug War

Please address the following in detail: Catalog the forensic evidence found in the Camarena Case. Summarize the steps followed by the crime scene investigators including the mistakes and/or correct steps followed to process the scene through the criminal justice system. Assess what could have been done better or what could have been improved upon during the forensic investigation of the crime scene. Title: Enrique Camarena Case: A Forensic Nightmare Document URL: PDF Author(s): M P Malone Journal: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Volume:58 Issue:9 Dated:(September 1989) Pages:1-6 Date Published: 1989 Page Count: 6 Annotation: The abduction of United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent Enrique Camarena and a DEA source in Mexico in 1985 led to one of the largest investigations by the DEA and a case that involved unusual forensic problems that required unusual solutions. Abstract: The two men were abducted on February 7, 1985 and their partially decomposed bodies were found and autopsied at morgues in Guadalajara. The main problems encountered in the forensic analyses were the destruction of evidence and the contamination of crime scenes. In addition, bureaucratic delays by local officials hampered the investigation by the FBI forensic team. It was clear that certain Mexican law enforcement officials were paid a large sum of money to obstruct and prematurely conclude the investigation. The problems were overcome by ignoring certain routine procedures or using unconventional methods. The problems were ultimately resolved, and almost all the evidence introduced at the trial made a major impact on the outcome. The 8-week trial was conducted under tight security and involved hundreds of witnesses. All the defendants were found guilty, were convicted on all counts, and are currently serving lengthy sentences. Photographs and diagrams. Main Term(s): Homicide investigations Index Term(s): Interagency cooperation ; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ; Investigative techniques ; Mexico Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/ NCJRS paper reproduction Box 6000, Dept F Rockville, MD 20849 United States of America NCJRS Photocopy Services Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 United States of America Publisher URL: http://www.fbi.gov Reference: To cite this abstract, use the following link: https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=121533 0f all the cases of troubling corruption and stunning violence that have characterized the war on drugs in Latin America, few linger as powerfully among U.S. drug agents as the case of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, who vanished on a busy street in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1985 while walking to meet his wife for lunch. His body was found nearly a month later. His skull, jaw, nose, cheekbones and windpipe were crushed. His ribs were broken. His head had been drilled with a screwdriver. The campaign to prosecute those responsible - the tentacles went from Mexican police to fabled drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero - took years. Even today, in the Drug Enforcement Administration's offices in Bogota, federal agents say the Camarena case has established a steely template for how the U.S. pursues drug investigations in what remains one of the world's most perilous law enforcement terrains. The 30-year-old case, whose anniversary has been quietly observed this month in DEA offices all over Latin America, opened one of the first windows on the brazen violence that would come to characterize the drug trade in Mexico. Paid Post WHAT'S THIS? Navigate new markets. A Message from Pitney Bowes The Craftsmen of Commerce help U.S. online businesses go global. See More There was another, more lasting legacy. The effort to bring Camarena's torturers to justice in a Los Angeles courtroom, analysts say, was a key legal catalyst for what came to be one of U.S. counter-terrorism's most controversial practices: the "extraordinary rendition" of suspects from foreign lands, outside the purview of international laws or extradition treaties. Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, a DEA agent, was tortured and killed in Mexico in 1985. (Associated Press) A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the practice stemmed from the 1990 seizure by bounty hunters of a Guadalajara doctor, Humberto Alvarez Machain, accused of injecting drugs into Camarena to keep him awake during his torture. Alvarez was bundled across the border and into the arms of U.S. authorities. And though he was later freed by a U.S. federal judge for insufficient evidence, the Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that his capture and involuntary transport across the border - in legal terms, the extraordinary rendition of a foreign citizen - was legal. The full significance of that ruling wouldn't become clear for years, until after the Sept. 11 attacks, when the United States relied on extraordinary rendition to capture terrorism suspects and deliver them to "black sites" in third countries for interrogation and torture. Vatican apologizes to Mexico over pope's comment on drug trafficking "It opened up an alternative to extraditions when the