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January 20, 2010

 

FEATURE ARTICLE

Preparation and Crime Scene Processing

Some of your most important prep work for a crime scene should occur before you ever leave your office. If you plan ahead and use your common sense, you’ll improve the odds that you’ll end up with a case that stands up in court and gets the results you want.

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INDUSTRY CALENDAR

   

February 10-12, 2010
ACSR Annual Training Conference
San Diego, CA

February 15-16, 2010
International Workshop on Recent Advances in Fingerprints
Allahabad, India

February 17-18, 2010
PEAF 2010 Conference
Orlando, FL

February 22-27, 2010
AAFS
Seattle, WA

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INDUSTRY NEWS


Court Revisits Ruling Forcing Lab Analysts to Testify

The U.S. Supreme Court revisited an issue it had appeared to resolve just months ago dealing with crime lab test results and when crime lab analysts must testify in court. In two cases from Virginia, the court flirted with undermining or reversing that ruling.

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3 Crime Lab Workers Fall Ill from Chemicals

Three Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab workers exposed to a dangerous combination of chemicals remained hospitalized through the night. A team of hazardous materials specialists analyzed the contents of a hazardous waste receptacle from the third-floor lab.

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Prisoners of Parole

Steven Alm, a state trial judge in Hawaii, stumbled onto an effective strategy for keeping people out of prison, one that puts a fresh twist on some venerable ideas about deterrence.

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SpheronVR Issues New Version of Its SceneWorks Solution

SceneWorks have tailored solutions for crime scene documentation. The solutions allow for the complete new workflow of visual scene documentation—from a crime scene through to court or from an onsite critical location through to the desk of analyzers or decision makers.

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Also In the News…

NIJ Funding Available for Forensic Research

Why the Coroner Knows in Days but You Don't Know For Weeks

DNA Matches Solve Only a Fraction of Crimes, Police Admit

Phoenix Police Investigating Own Crime Lab

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