This session will cover ways to successfully challenge the presence of DNA evidence in your case.  If the government claims to have located your client’s DNA at the crime scene, your client may not have put it there.  Evidentiary issues involved with certification, testing, and transfer will be covered.

These presentations were recorded August 18-19, 2011, during the Multi-Track Seminar in Seattle, Washington.

The seminar was designed to offer in-depth instruction in a variety of substantive criminal defense areas. The five tracks for 2011 in Seattle were: 1) Immigration with a focus on Padilla 2) Sentencing in a post-Bookerworld; 3) Experts, Forensics & Science; 4) Computer Crimes and Handling of Electronic Discovery; and 5) Drugs, Guns and Money. Tracks 1-4 were presented in four distinct hour-long time blocks. Those sessions were presented on Thursday, August 18, 2011 and then repeated on Friday, August 19, 2011. This design provided seminar participants the opportunity to attend two of the four separate tracks that took place on Thursday and Friday.

On Saturday, August 20, 2011, seminar participants had the opportunity to attend both plenary and small group breakout sessions for the 5th track, Drugs, Guns & Money. These Saturday sessions addressed topics of general interest and importance to criminal defense practitioners. Each session was presented twice so that attendees were able to attend at least two areas of interest.

The following Multi-Track presentations were recorded and are available for viewing:

• Facebook, Myspace, The Joys/Dangers of Internet Social Networks and How to Use Them as a Litigation Tool
• Fingerprints: Understanding & Challenging Science
  
• Firearm and Toolmark Identification
• Recidivism, Recidivism, Recidivism:  How to Mitigate Your Client's Criminal History
  
• The Fine Print:  Avoiding Restrictive Conditions of Supervised Release 
• Attacking and Understanding DNA 
• Defending Against Armed Career Criminal & Career Offender Designations
  

Attacking and Understanding DNA

Speaker Information

Larry Tipton   [ view bio ]

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