2010 - August 2
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General Announcements
Below please find all of the forms and information you will need to register for this year's symposium in Baltimore. If you have any problems with the online registration, please contact Cindy at office@ascld.org or by phone at 919-773-2044. General Symposium and Workshop Registration Announcement and Workshop Schedule Super Shuttle for Hotel / Airport Transit (Group Flyer) PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE AN E-MAIL CONFIRMATION WHEN YOU REGISTER ON-LINE IT MEANS YOUR REGISTRATION DID NOT GO THROUGH. PLEASE CONTACT CINDY AT office@ascld.org or by phone at 919-773-2044
AUGUST 10 IS THE DEADLINE FOR REDUCED REGISTRATION COSTS, AFTER AUGUST 10 THE PRICE GOES UP. REGISTER TODAY!!! Quick LinksNFSTC in partnership with National Institute of Justice (NIJ)is pleased to announce that this training will be provided at no cost to eligible applicants
August 2-6 and 9-13, 2010 at Suffolk University in Boston
News around the globeIn Fighting Crime, How Wide Should a Genetic Net Reach? DNA Database of Criminals to Be Assembled This Year
Korea The government will collect and store the DNA profiles of 20,000 people convicted of violent crimes such as murder and rape this year. Microsoft Crosses Swords with Pirates
BusinessWeek Microsoft employs digital forensics and other technologies to help law-enforcement authorities bust counterfeiter syndicates. Illinois
Last month, Illinois became the first state to require the testing of all DNA evidence gathered from reported sex crimes.
West Virginia
Are meth lab sites ever really fully remediated?
Legally Speaking: Scents and Sensibility-When Evidence Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
Texas Set against the backdrop of debate over forensic science standards in Texas, courts have grown increasingly skeptical about dog-scent lineups. Pretrial of murder suspect Paul Moccia continues; state pushes to nix DNA expert from trial
Massachusetts Prosecutors sought to prevent a former director of the Massachusetts State Police crime lab from serving as an expert witness.
STATE v. WILLIS
Supreme Court of Oregon A trial court erred in admitting a scientific report authored by a state police criminalist that identified a particular substance seized from defendant as methamphetamine.
KM Kester, et al. Journal of Forensic Sciences
We tested the hypotheses that foraging insects can acquire human DNA from the environment and that insect-delivered human DNA is of sufficient quantity and quality to permit standard forensic analyses. |
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