Live webinar presented by Amanda Venable
July 24, 2025, 12:30pm
90 min of CLE credit anticipated
In this webinar, attendees will learn about the services provided by the NC State Crime Lab Drug Chemistry section. The presenter will explain evidence submission criteria, and best practices for submitting drug evidence to the crime laboratory. This information will help attorneys and legal teams better understand how the lab determines which items to test. In addition, an overview of how a case is worked as well as sampling and reporting will be provided.
Each webinar from July-December 2025 will be taught by a State Crime Lab scientist and focus on the testing done by the laboratory in their particular discipline. Topics will include drug chemistry, toxicology, trace evidence, digital evidence, DNA, firearms, and latent evidence.
Registration:
This program is part of the 2025 IDS Forensic Science Education Series. The webinars will be presented monthly and are free to attend. Use this link to register for all webinars in the series and attend any that are of interest.
Presenter:
Amanda Venable is a Forensic Scientist Manager in the Drug Chemistry Section of the NC State Crime Laboratory in Raleigh.