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Experience

  • Recognized and respected for achievement in evaluation, comparison and identification of fingerprint impressions over many years
  • Initially trained with the FBI Identification Division, Washington, DC
  • Conducted and/or assisted examinations for the following:
    • US Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps
    • NCOIC, Military Justice 35 FW/JA, Misawa Air Base, Japan
    • US Army Trial Defense Service, Yongsan Field Office Korea, Pacific Rim Region
    • University of Michigan Law School Innocence Project
    • Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
    • Louisiana Capital Assistance Center
    • New York City Law Department Bronx Tort-Police Defense Group
    • Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-North and Middle Regions, State of Florida
    • Southern and Middle Districts of Florida Federal Public Defender
    • State of Florida 1st, 3rd and 4th Districts of the Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel
    • Florida Public Defenders Offices Judicial Districts: 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th
    • Federal Public Defender, Eastern District of California (Fresno)
    • Federal Public Defender Offices in Alabama, Georgia and Texas
    • State Attorney Offices of Broward and Monroe Counties, Florida
    • Public Defender Office Taos, New Mexico
    • Domestic Private Attorneys in California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC
    • International Private Attorneys in London, England and Nassau, Bahamas
    • Private Investigators in California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia
  • Testified as a prosecution/defense witness on hundreds of occasions in 30+ states, Japan and the Bahamas at all levels of judicial proceedings, both criminal and military.
  • Re-examination of the evidence and reports from law enforcement agencies
  • Established an up-to-date police technical section, including a modern fingerprint facility within a newly organized police department in Lakewood, Colorado
  • Consulted and appeared on Discovery ID Network's "Reasonable Doubt" television series

Instructed and lectured:

  • The fingerprint science of analysis, comparison, evaluation and verification
    • Miami-Dade Police Academy
    • US Secret Service Basic Agent School
    • US Secret Service Senior Agent In-Service Training Seminars
    • Criminal Justice Academy Fairfax County, Virginia
    • Criminal Justice Academy Montgomery County, Maryland
    • Citizen Groups and Forensic Science Students
  • The authenticity of government issued identification documents
    • Economic Fraud Conferences in Europe, Canada and Mexico

Professional Organizations

  • Life Member/International Association for Identification
  • Life Member/Chesapeake Division International Association for Identification
  • Life Member/Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Science
  • Member/Intellenet/International Intelligence Network
  • Florida Association of Private Investigators (FAPI)
  • South Florida Investigator's Association
  • US Secret Service Association (formerly known as Association of Former Agents US Secret Service)
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Ex-Associate)