North Carolina Office of Indigent Defense Services
// by Jessica Phipps
In North Carolina, Timothy Scott Bridges was serving life for the rape of an 83-year old woman in Charlotte, in May of 1990. The evidence used at trial was microscopy hair evidence. He was convicted by a jury in Mecklenburg County for the charges of first-degree rape, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to …
State v. Bridges, No. 90 CRS23102-04, 2015 WL 12670468 (N.C. Super. Ct. Oct. 1, 2015).Read More
// by Jessica Phipps
Filed by the Innocent Network in support of the defendant.
// by Jessica Phipps
// by Jessica Phipps
Relevant Chapters Include: Experiment 8: Crime Scene Investigation: Safeguarding, Searching, Recognition, Documentation, Collection, Packaging, and Preservation of Physical Evidence Experiment 9: Trace Evidence Collection and Sorting Experiment 11: Examination of Human Hair Experiment 14: Examination of Trace Quantities of Synthetic Fibers
// by Sarah Olson
11-minute demonstration of how the STRmix software suite works. This video will provide attorneys with an introduction to the user interface and reports produced by STRmix software.
// by Sarah Olson
55-minute introduction to probabilistic genotyping by Dr. Dan E. Krane of Wright State University.
Forensic DNA Profiling Video Series: Probabilistic GenotypingRead More
// by Sarah Olson
Wells, G. L., Kovera, M. B., Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., Meissner, C. A., & Wixted, J. T. (2020). Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 44(1), 3–36. The Executive Committee of the American Psychology-Law Society appointed a subcommittee to update the influential 1998 scientific review …
// by Jessica Phipps
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered hair comparison evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 …
// by Jessica Phipps
Tiny fragments of physical evidence such as hairs, fibers from clothing or carpeting, or pieces of glass are examples of trace evidence, and can be transferred when two objects touch or when small particles are disbursed by an action or movement. This evidence can be used to reconstruct an event or indicate that a person …
// by Sarah Olson
Registration is available here. The webinar is free to attend. For those requesting CLE credit, there is a $10 fee. For NAPD members, a recorded version may be available in their webinar archive. Description: This webinar offers definitions, examples, and explanations of various types of injuries, including the dating of bruises. Pressure ulcer prevention, assessment, and …
Webinar: Blunt Force Trauma- What Every Attorney/Investigator Needs to KnowRead More
// by Sarah Olson
Offered by Godoy Medical Forensics, Speaker: Tara Godoy
// by Sarah Olson
Offered by Godoy Medical Forensics, Speaker: Tara Godoy
Webinar: Strangulation- Evaluating Strangulation Evidence From a Medical PerspectiveRead More
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Date: Dec. 10, 2020, Presenter: Dr. Maureen Reardon, Offered by NC Indigent Defense Services
Psychological Testing in Criminal Cases: the Utility of the MMPIRead More
// by Jessica Phipps
A chemist at NIST has developed a portable version of his method for recovering trace chemicals such as environmental pollutants and forensic evidence including secret graves and arson fire debris. The briefcase-sized kit could enable detectives, field inspectors and others to carry with them a convenient version of NIST’s “headspace analysis” technique, which identifies solid or …
Portable NIST Kit Can Recover Traces of Chemical EvidenceRead More
// by Jessica Phipps
The goal of this focus area is to improve the field of glass evidence analysis by developing new matrix-matched glass standards and by evaluating more objective approaches to evidence interpretation, such as the likelihood ratio. The latter will be accomplished through the development of glass databases that may be used to assign a significance to …