Credits
NOTE TO USERS: This President's DNA Initiative Officers of the Court Case Study, concerning cold-case DNA, was completed and published in 2008, in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice. Opinions or points of view expressed in this report represent a consensus of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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To ensure that this program appropriately served its audience, a broad-based, multi-disciplinary focus group of subject matter experts was empaneled to develop content, multimedia, and user-interface components. Additional expertise from statisticians and researchers in the field of forensic DNA was obtained to provide the most accurate and comprehensive program content.
Special Thanks To
Sarah Hart, Director, National Institute of Justice (2001-2005)
Working Group Members
Jack Ballantyne, University of Central Florida
Susan M. Ballou, Office of Law Enforcement Standards, National Institute of Standards and Technology
The Honorable Ming Chin, California Supreme Court
The Honorable George W. Clarke, Judge of the Superior Court, County of San Diego
The Honorable Andre Davis, Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Jules Epstein, Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing
Debra Figarelli, City of Phoenix, Laboratory Services Bureau/National Forensic Science Technology Center
Dean Gialamas, Forensic Science Services Division, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department
Syndi Guido, Office of Policy, Pennsylvania State Police
Carol Henderson, The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law, Stetson University School of Law
Kimberly Herd, Office of the Assistant United States Attorney
Henry Lee, University of New Haven
Terry Melton, Mitotyping Technologies
Christopher Plourd, Law Office of Christopher J. Plourd
The Honorable Ronald Reinstein, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona
Steve Twist, National Crime Victim Law Institute
Subject Matter Expert Contributors
Frederick Bieber, Bringham and Women's Hospital
John Butler, Human Identity DNA Technologies Group, Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
George Carmody, Carleton University
Joe Cecil, Federal Judicial Center
Greggory LaBerge, Denver Police Department Crime Laboratory
NFSTC Development Team
Robin W. Jones, Project Manager, Consultant
Mike O'Berry, Instructional Technology Manager
Eileen Fynan, Instructional Design Specialist
Mark Taylor, Multimedia Design Specialist
Danny Nichols, Multimedia Design Specialist
Rebecca Carter, Art Director, NFSTC@FIU (2022 rebuild)
