2010 - July 26

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

Credit Card Form

Super Shuttle for Hotel / Airport Transit (Group Flyer)
We have arranged a group code for the symposium, it is 4NN2U. Attendees can use it to get discounts with either SuperShuttle or ExecuCar by calling our reservation agents at 1800-BLUE-VAN (258-3826) or clicking the above link.

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

Quick Links

Footwear/TireTrack Examiner Training Program

NFSTC in partnership with National Institute of Justice (NIJ)is pleased to announce that this training will be provided at no cost to eligible applicants.

Basic and Advanced Bloodstain Pattern Analysis classes with Paul Kish

August 2-6 and 9-13, 2010 at Suffolk University in Boston.

News around the globe

Use of familial DNA searches in Va. debated
Virginia
Forensic scientists working on unsolved Virginia crimes are not using a proven -- if still controversial -- investigative tool that can crack the toughest and deadliest of cases.

Backlog prompts Lykos to call for emergency DNA lab
Texas

Despite spending millions rebuilding the Houston Police Department's troubled DNA lab, the department still cannot keep up with daily requests to test evidence gathered at crime scenes.

Brain Scan Lie Detection
Policy Innovations
A woman in India was found guilty of murder due to brain scan evidence in June 2008, becoming the first person ever convicted in this manner.

Forensic science braces for change
Nature.com
FBI laboratory chief is optimistic despite severe criticism and challenges ahead.

Touch DNA forensics kits streamlining prison investigations

Indiana
When an offender says “It’s not mine” or “I didn’t touch it” regarding illegal drugs, weapons or other contraband found at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, a new investigative tool can reveal the truth.

Database Access and the Defense

Law Technology News

While the right of confrontation was intended to address human witnesses, defendants are facing evidence drawn from computer-generated sources.

PEOPLE v. WISE
California Court of Appeals
Did the trial court violate his right to confront the witnesses against him when it allowed a lead criminalist to testify regarding test reports that the seized evidence was cocaine base, because the criminalist did not personally perform the laboratory test?