JUDICIAL  PREPARATION  COURSE





Course Length: Two (2) Days                           Click here to jump to Course Schedule
 

Instructor: Ivan R. Futrell  (540) 659 6450,  Fax (540) 657 1619
                                             E-mail: fgpt@msn.com
                                             Web Site: www.onin.com/ivan

Over 45 years experience in the science of fingerprints.  Retired FBI, Assistant Unit Chief, Latent Fingerprint Section, Laboratory Division, Washington, DC.  Thirty-seven years with the FBI.  Thirty years experience as a Latent Print Examiner with the FBI, including 10 years assigned to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia as an Instructor of Fingerprint Identification.  Seven years of experience in classifying, searching and filing inked fingerprints.  From FBI retirement to present, employed as a consultant and instructor in the science of fingerprints.  Member of the International Association for Identification (IAI) and an IAI Certified Latent Print Examiner, since 1978, Fellow of The Fingerprint Society and member of the American Society for Law Enforcement Training (ASLET).
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The focus of this course will be to review and discuss fingerprint-related topics in order to prepare the student with the knowledge and confidence to present expert testimony in a court of law.  This course will cover the historical background of fingerprint identification, basis of friction skin identification and discussion of the scientific methodology used in the comparison of latent prints in order to achieve accurate and reliable conclusions.  Other topics will include techniques of developing and preserving latent prints, answers to qualifying questions and tactics used by defense attorneys.

Practical exercises will consist of the preparation of charted enlargements of a latent and inked fingerprint and the presentation of expert testimony.  Each student's courtroom presentation will be videotaped.


 
 
 
 


 

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