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Supreme Court Ruling Requires Crime Lab Analysts to Testify
Get ready to trade your lab coat for a suit coat. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last Thursday will require crime lab analysts to appear in court and submit to cross-examination if their reports are used as evidence. This ruling could have tremendous impacts on how crime labs operate and exacerbate the backlog problems that plague crime labs nationwide.
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The upgraded LIBRA® 120 Energy Filter Transmission Electron Microscope (EFTEM) features a redesigned vacuum system that can accommodate the constantly increasing demands of revealing structural and 3-D information of beam sensitive or frozen hydrated samples at a nano scale. The LIBRA’s range of magnification has been extended and an additional illumination mode, called “wide field illumination,” has been developed.

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FORENSIC NEWS
  • The Man Without a Fingerprint
    A Singaporean cancer patient was detained by U.S. customs because his cancer treatment had made his fingerprints disappear. A forensic expert explains other ways people can lose—intentionally or unintentionally—one of their unique identifiers.
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  • Florida Police Fleet Going High-Tech
    The DeLand, Florida, police fleet used a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to purchase 18 digital video cameras and audio recorders to fit into patrol cars. "Whatever a camera captures or records is visual evidence pretty hard to dispute in a court of law," Deputy Chief Randel Henderson said.
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  • Oregon Case Puts Reliability of Science On Trial
    Inside the Oregon State Penitentiary, Philip Scott Cannon spends every waking moment poring over legal documents. The "bullet lead analysis" that was the prosecution's primary tool in an otherwise circumstantial case against him has since been discarded as bad science.
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  • Sagem Sécurité Wins Contract For Advanced Facial Recognition System In Australia
    Sagem Sécurité has signed a contract with the New South Wales Government’s Roads and Traffic Authority to supply and maintain a biometric face recognition system with a 15 million image database, for driver licenses.
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  • HyperVision Video Camera Records 1 Million Frames Per Second
    Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has designed the compact HyperVision HPV-2 to meet the demand for high-speed video cameras that are functionally advanced and easy to use. The HPV-2 achieves ultra-fast recording at speeds of 1 million frames per second.
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  • Also in the News…
    Family of UCLA Lab Fire Victim Criticizes Investigation
    Crime-Lab Work Techniques Questioned in Murder Trial
    10% Discount on iPhone Forensics Workshop

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July 22, 2009
Forensic Science Seminar
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July 27-29th, 2009
2nd Annual Green Mountain DNA Conference
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August 16 – 22, 2009
Annual IAI International Educational Conference
Tampa, FL

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

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

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 12 – 15, 2009
International Symposium on Human Identification
Las Vegas, NV

October 14 – 16, 2009
Ohio Identification Officers Association Fall Training Conference
Miamisburg, OH

October 18–23, 2009
SAFS/MAFS/MAAFS/SWAFS Joint Meeting
Orlando, FL

October 19–23, 2009
SOFT
Oklahoma City, OK

October 19–20, 2009
New Jersey State Division of the IAI Annual Educational Conference
Hamilton, NJ

October 19–23, 2009
Tennessee Division of the IAI Fall Conference
Nashville, TN

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