| Victims' Rights and Services During
Post-Conviction and Exoneration
Proceedings |
August 25, 2010 |
| This webinar will increase the capacity of victim service
providers and allied professionals to support victims in post-conviction
and DNA exoneration proceedings. Participants will learn about the
profound impact of exonerations on survivors. Presenters will
discuss what those who work with victims need to know about victims' needs
and services and which victims' rights could apply in post-conviction DNA
testing cases. |
Speakers: Meg Garvin, Executive Director, National Crime Victim Law
Institute; Chris Jenkins, Victim Witness Coordinator, Dallas County
District Attorney's Office (Presentation Slides: Garvin | Jenkins)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| Using DNA Evidence to Solve Missing Persons, Homicide, and
Trafficking
Cases |
August 11, 2010 |
| This Webinar will present an overview of the University of
North Texas's human identification program and how they are using DNA and
the national DNA database to bring closure to missing persons and homicide
cases. Participants will learn what law enforcement, victim service
providers, and other professionals can do to provide guidance to families
of missing loved ones. Presenters will discuss innovative uses of
DNA to prevent human trafficking. |
Speakers: Art Eisenberg, PhD, University of North Texas Center for
Human Identification; Officer G.W. Adams, University of North Texas Health Science
Center Police Department; B. J. Spamer, University of North Texas Center for Human
Identification, Forensic Servies Unit (Presentation Slides: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and Victim
Sensitive Evidence Collection
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March 2, 2010 |
| This webinar aims to increase understanding about the role
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) play in the proper collection of
forensic evidence and in providing a supportive and empowering response to
survivors. Participants will learn about how SANEs increase the
probability of obtaining probative DNA evidence while minimizing trauma
for survivors and how the involvement of SANEs increase prosecution
rates. |
Speakers: Kim Day, RN, FNE A/P, SANE-A, Safe
Techincal Assistance Coordinator For the International Association of
Forensic Nurses (IAFN); Jacqui Callari Robinson, RN, SANE-A,
Director Prevention and Health Care Service, Wisconsin Coalition Against
Sexual Assault (Presentation Slides)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| Recovering Forensic DNA Evidence from Crime
Scenes
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February 25, 2010 |
| This Webinar will cover best-practice strategies for
conducting quality crime scene investigation, collecting, documenting,
packaging, transporting, and storing biological and touch DNA evidence as
well as providing court testimony. The speaker, retired senior sergeant in
the NYPD Crime Scene Unit, will cover evidence collection in burglary
cases and discuss "touch DNA." |
Speakers: Retired Detective Sergeant Joe Blozis (Presentation Slides)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| DNA
101: Demystifying CODIS and DNA Profiles for Victim Service
Providers |
February 8, 2010 |
| This webinar will increase the capacity of victim service
providers to provide victims with informed and sensitive guidance related
to matters involving forensic DNA. Through this webinar, victim service
providers and other participants will become familiar with the forensic
DNA testing process and how forensic DNA profiles are generated from
evidence and matched through the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). Mr.
Della Manna will explain how CODIS functions in forensic crime
laboratories in the United States, its architecture, eligibility
requirements for DNA samples (offender, crime scene, missing persons), and
describe the various types of DNA analysis that can be performed in crime
labs. He will also address concerns about genetic privacy, including what
information forensic DNA profiles contain and who is authorized by federal
law to have access to the national database. |
Speakers: Angelo Della Manna, Chief of Forensic Biology & DNA,
Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (Presentation Slides)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| A Prosecutor's
Perspective on Innovative Uses of
DNA |
January 14, 2010 |
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This webinar will cover the innovative uses of forensic DNA being
employed by prosecutors and police in Denver, Colorado. Participants will
learn about collecting DNA evidence in property crimes; using "John Doe
warrants" to prevent the statute of limitations from running out;
investigating cold cases based on DNA hits and techniques for
interrogating suspects in such cases; and generating investigative leads
by searching DNA databases for "close matches" that might be relatives of
an unknown offender.
Speaker: Mitch Morrissey, District Attorney, Denver,
Colorado (Presentation Slides)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| Solving Property Crimes with Forensic
DNA |
December 9, 2009 |
This webinar will present two innovative programs, in New
York City and Denver, where DNA evidence is being regularly collected and
tested in burglary cases. Burglary is a highly recidivistic crime, and one
that can be a "gateway" to violent crimes. The speakers will discuss the
successes of these programs and what is required to expand your
jurisdiction's use of DNA to property crimes.
Speakers: Retired Detective Sergeant Joe Blozis; Mitch Morrisey, Denver District
Attorney (Presentation Slides)
Recording of Web Presentation
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| Maximizing the Potential of DNA
Technology
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November 18, 2009 |
This webinar will give participants an overview of the rapid
development of DNA technology and databasing that has occurred over the
past thirty years and the tremendous potential it holds for solving and
preventing crime. Speakers will discuss cutting edge applications of DNA
technology and its applications for law enforcement and
prosecution.
Speakers: Chris Asplen, Gordon Thomas Honeywell Government Affairs
(Presentation Slides)
Recording of Web Presentation
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