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Seminar Title:
Bloodstain Pattern
DATES: 9/13/2010 through 9/15/2010
INSTRUCTOR(S): Thomas Martin
LOCATION: The New Mexico Department of Public Safety Training Center - 4491 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507
HOTEL: Inn at Santa Fe - Santa Fe, NM 1-505-474-9500
$79.00 Double Queen
Identify with Public Agency Training Council to receive discounted rate.
COURSE REGISTRATION FEE: $350.00 Includes all training materials, and a Certificate of Completion.
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Instructor Bio
Thomas L Martin, Jr
Tom Martin is a sworn crime scene investigator for one of the largest police agencies in the country. He has worked in forensics since 1988 and has supervised the forensic crime scene unit since 1996. Tom has investigated thousands of forensic cases; including, murder, serial and mass murders, police involved shootings, bombings and sexual assaults. Tom’s training and experience encompass several fields of expertise, including: forensic crime scene reconstruction, latent print processing and identification, blood stain pattern analysis, and forensic composite art. He serves as a consultant for The National Institute of Justice and currently sits on the NIJ Technical Working Group for Sensor and Surveillance Technology.
Tom is a nationally recognized speaker who has instructed at numerous forensic training seminars across the United States including: the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, The National Institute of Justice and the Smithsonian Institute. Tom serves as a faculty member for the National College of District Attorneys and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, (IACP). He has lectured, on several occasions in Washington, D.C., providing presentations to executive officials of the National Institute of Justice and members of the United States Congress.
Tom has appeared on several forensic related television shows including: the HBO series “Autopsy”, the Court TV series “Trace Evidence”, has filmed several episodes for the Discovery Channel and has appeared on Court TV as an expert guest analyst. Tom is the author of the Crime Scene Forensics: A Field Guide for the First Responder pocket guide series published by Looseleaf Law.
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Pre-Payment is NOT required to register or attend this seminar
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS SEMINAR
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Course
Objectives
To give investigators and crime scene personnel a basic foundation in identifying
and documenting bloodstain and pattern evidence. It is
not expected nor should you expect to be an expert or considered an expert
in the fields bloodstain and pattern analysis
and reconstruction upon completion of this course. You should however, be
able to recognize and properly document bloodstain evidence at
crime scenes.
This training will give you the basic tools needed to establish parameters
bloodstain and pattern identification and crime
scene reconstruction. In addition, you will learn how to work with blood
and should be able to carry on additional experiments upon return to your
department which can lead to qualification as an expert in the future. It
is imperative that those of you, who wish to qualify experts, continue to
identify significant blood patterns at crime scenes,
document that evidence, and participate in additional experiments as appropriate
in attempting to recreate what you observe at specific scenes.
Blood As Evidence:
Blood at crime scenes, on the victim, suspect, or witnesses (clothing or
persons) can be considered significant and treated as such when documenting,
collecting, and preserving. There may be some differences in the degree of
documentation of blood which is collected for laboratory identification (DNA)
and the blood in bloodstain patterns which will be used for bloodstain pattern
analysis and crime scene reconstruction.
Traditionally blood at crime scenes has been documented and collected for
identification, now through DNA, at a crime laboratory. Although the documentation
and collection occurs at the scene, the primary identification occurs in
the laboratory. IF these samples can give you information as who and how
many people were bleeding at the scene.
Bloodstain pattern analysis from a crime scene may provide investigative
leads as well as supportive or non-supportive evidence for victim's, suspect's,
and witness's statements. If you are using the bloodstain pattern analysis
to assist in a crime scene reconstruction, it is critical that complete documentation
of the blood take place. A person, who was not present at the scene, should
be able to reconstruct from your documentation what occurred. Without adequate
documentation, later reconstruction may not be able to be done and your analysis
may not be verified.
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