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Photo-Facial Comparison and Analysis
By Barbara Martin Bailey
Photo-facial comparison can be a useful identification tool, helping to determine whether two or more images are of separate persons or one and the same. With knowledge of facial features and imaging, this process helped solve a seven-year-old cold case.
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FORENSIC NEWS
  • Where Fingerprinting Fails, There’s Trigger ID
    By Darren McRoy
    Trying to extract identification from a crime-scene gun is a tricky prospect. Fingerprints, for instance, can be of marginal quality and tricky to identify. Now Forensic ID hopes to revolutionize gun-crime identification with Trigger ID, a new DNA collection program.
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  • Police-Ordered DWI Blood Tests Creating a Furor
    A new Texas law, which takes effect Sept. 1, allows police to order blood drawn from a person suspected of driving while intoxicated without judicial review under certain circumstances.
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  • State Crime Lab in Utah Waiting To See Effects of Budget Cuts
    The 15 to 20 scientists in Utah’s state crime lab analyze about 15,000 items a year in thousands of cases. Now staff are poised to see how a 15% budget cut, which took effect July 1, could lengthen turnaround time.
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  • Police Hope DNA Can ID Bank Robber
    Hutchinson, Kansas, police officers are still searching for a man who robbed Peoples Bank and Trust. Detectives are hopeful DNA evidence collected from the scene will lead them to a suspect as security camera photos have yet to yield results.
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  • DA Eager to Launch Pilot DNA Unit
    Ventura Country, California, District Attorney Greg Totten hopes to whittle down unsolved criminal cases with federal funds for a DNA cold case prosecution unit, a $570,00 pilot program.
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    Indonesia Using MegaMatcher Biometric Technology in Integrated Passport System
    Supreme Court's Decision May Have Minimal Affect on Wisconsin's Two Crime Labs

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August 16 – 22, 2009
Annual IAI International Educational Conference
Tampa, FL

August 19 – 22, 2009
Crime Mapping Research Conference
New Orleans, LA

August 23 – 27, 2009
47th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
Geneva, Switzerland

September 11 – 16, 2009
NAME Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA

September 13 – 17, 2009
ASCLD Annual Symposium
Anaheim, CA

September 21 – 25, 2009
Rocky Mountain Division of the IAI / NWAFS Joint Fall Conference
Fort Collins, CO

September 23 – 25, 2009
Minnesota Division of the IAI Conference
Baxter, MN

Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2009
The 1st International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime
Albany, NY

October 2 – 3 2009
Southern California Association of Fingerprint Officers (SCAFO) Annual Training Seminar
Burbank, CA

October 3 – 7, 2009
IACP Annual Conference & Exposition
Denver, CO

October 6 – 9, 2009
Tri-Division Educational Conference
Las Vegas, NV

October 7 – 10, 2009
AFQAM Conference
Anaheim, CA

October 9 – 10, 2009
Chesapeake Bay Division of the IAI Fall Educational Conference
Roanoke, WV

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