Court of Criminal Appeals
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Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence
Gary A. Udashen, Sorrels, Udashen & Anton
TFSA Property & Evidence Management Certificate Program - Cullen Grisson
Update on Legal Standards for Forensic Evidence
Gary Udashen, TCJIU/Innocent Project of Texas/Sorrels, Udashen & Anton
Forensic Ethics: Spotlight on Brady
Judge Michael Keasler, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Live Mock Cross / Direct of a Forensic Scientist:
Putting DNA Evidence into Perspective
Judge Sid Harle, TCJIU / 226th Judicial District; Dr. Bruce Budowle, UNTHSC; Lance Long, Assistant DA, Harris County; Jerald Graber, Criminal Defense Attorney
- Handout
- Presentation
- Live Mock 1
- Live Mock 2
- Live Mock 3
- Live Mock 4
- Live Mock 5
- Live Mock 6
- Live Mock 7
- Live Mock 8
- Live Mock 9
- Live Mock 10
Recent Developments in Crime Lab Accreditation and Their Impact
Laurel Farrell, ASCLD-LAB
Panel on Possibilities for Improving Consistency
Richard Alpert, TFSC/Tarrant County DA; Ron Singer, Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office; Pat Johnson, DPS; Sarah Chu, National Innocence Project
Developments in Arson Investigation
Dr. John DeHaan, FireEx Forensics
Recent Trends in Digital and Multimedia
Jennifer Land, DPS
New Designer Drugs:
Synthetic Cannabinoids and Cathinones
Darrell Davis, DEA South Central Lab
State of the Union Regarding Publicly Funded Crime Labs
Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, TFSC/SWIFS; Tim Fallon, TACLD/Bexar County Crime Lab; Pat Johnson, DPS; Dr. Ashraf Mozayanai, Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences; Tom Stimpson, Fort Worth Police Department
Recent Trends in Forensic Pathology
Ron Singer, Tarrant County Medical Examiner
Recent Trends in Firearms/Toolmarks
Dr. Nizam Peerwani, TFSC/Tarrant County Medical Examiner
Eyewitness ID:
Spotlight on Texas Model Reforms
Dr. Phillip Lyons, LEMIT; Chief James McLaughlin, TCJIU/Texas Police Chiefs Association
Current Issues in Forensic Anthropology
Dr. Jennifer Love, Harris County Medical Examiners
Implementation of SB 1616:
Storage of Biological Evidence
Pat Johnson, DPS
Recent Trends in Toxicology
Dr. Sarah Kerrigan, TFSC/SHSU
Latent Print Examination
Melissa Gische, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Developments in DNA
Dr. Bruce Budowle, UNTHSC; Dr. Art Eisenberg, TFSC / UNTHSC
Recent Trends in Trace Evidence
Melissa Valadez, DPS
March 22 Audio | Video
March 23 Audio | Video
The Role of Support Groups in Addiction Recovery
Pam Newton, M.S., LCDC, Founding Director of the Betty Ford Center Five Star Kids Program
Drug Abuse & Addiction:
Current Drug Trends & Cultures
Patrick J. Sammon, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky
Competency in Criminal Proceedings
Judge Andrew Carruthers, Criminal Law Magistrate Judge of Bexar County
Competency Examinations
Dr. Brian Skop, Forensic and General Psychiatrist
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Rosemary Carr Malone, M.D., CDR, MC, USN, Director of Deployment Health, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Stop the Revolving Door:
A Civil Approach to Treating Severe Mental Illness
Treatment Advocacy Center
Representing the Mentally Ill
Judge Polly Jackson Spencer, Probate Court Number One of Bexar County
Rewriting the Mental Health Code
Dr. Susan Stone, J.D., M.D., Executive Coordinator for the Mental Health Task Force
Texas Legal Standards for Forensic Evidence
Prof. Guy Wellborn, University of Texas School of Law
Mock Hearing Demonstration
Cynthia Kent, Retired Smith County District Judge; Sam Bassett, Minton, Burton, Foster, & Collins, P.C.; and John Bradley, Williamson County District Attorneys Office
Admissibility of Forensic Science Testimony from the Perspective of the Forensic Scientist
Joe Bono, American Academy of Forensic Science
Forensic Ethics
Judge Michael Keasler, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; and Charles Mallin, Tarrant County District Attorneys Office
Quality Assurance Standards and Laboratory Accreditation Auditorium
Ralph Keaton, ASCLD-LAB;Pat Johnson,Texas DPS Crime Laboratory
Solutions for DNA Backlogs
Dr. Jeff Boschwitz, Orchid Cellmark; and Peter Marone, Virginia Department of Forensic Science
The NAS Report
Dr. Jay Siegel, Forensic and Investigative Science Program at Indiana Purdue University
The Scientific Method Auditorium
Joe Bono, American Academy of Forensic Science
Eyewitness Identifications & Confessions
Rebecca Brown, The Innocence Project
Flawed Forensics and Wrongful Convictions Finance Room
Edwin Colfax, The Justice Project
Arson/Fire Investigations
Steve Carman, Retired ATF Agent
Digital and Multimedia Evidence
Jennifer Land, Texas DPS Crime Laboratory
Firearms and Toolmarks
Tim Counce, Texas DPS Crime Laboratory
DNA Evidence
Dr. Arthur Eisenberg, University of North Texas Health Science Center
Latent Print Evidence
Bryan Strong, Texas DPS Crime Laboratory
Toxicology
Dr. Sarah Kerrigan, Sam Houston State University Regional Crime Laboratory
HGN and DWI Investigations
Lt. Jimmy Jackson, Texas DPS Highway Patrol Division
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