ADVANCED FORENSIC FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION AND TESTIMONY COURSE







Course Length: Five (5) 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 49 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 Fellow of The Fingerprint Society.


The focus of this course will be to acquaint the student with information concerning latent print comparisons and to prepare for and testify as a fingerprint expert.

This course will provide detailed instruction and practical application of fingerprint pattern interpretation; the study and evaluation of friction ridge characteristics; digit determination; the orientation of latent prints to known prints; and evaluation and comparison of latent prints.

Extensive practical exercises will be conducted in the evaluation and comparison of latent prints.

Class instruction and practical exercises will include the preparation of fingerprint evidence for court testimony.  Each student will prepare a set of charted enlargements of latent and inked fingerprints.

A significant portion of this course will consist of conducting latent print comparisons and the presentation of direct expert testimony by and cross-examination of the student.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 

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