ACADEMIC
University of Texas at Austin City College San Francisco
B.A.,
American Studies Associates Degree, Paralegal Studies
With
Departmental Honors With Honors
City
College San Francisco
Golden Key
Phi Kappa Phi
Associates Degree, Criminology
National Honor Society
Honor Society
SPECIALIZED INVESTIGATIVE
AND FORENSIC TRAINING
Medicolegal Death
Investigator Training,
24 hours
New Mexico Office of
Medicolegal Investigation
September, 2007
Bloodstain and
Bullet Pattern Evidence Analysis for Crime Scene Reconstruction
June 4, 2007, 24 hours
Public Agency Training Council, Sandra Mays
Advanced Sexual
Assault Investigation, 16 hour course
Verdicus Training, San Antonio, 2007
Establishing Guilt
or Innocence, 8 hours
UT Law School, Austin,
July 2007
Annual Forensics
Seminar 16 hours
TCDLA, Dallas, October
Dallas
The Mind and
Criminal Defense 8 hours
Center for American and
International Law
Plano July 2007
Bill of Rights
Review, 4th 5th and 6th Amendments 6 hours
TCDLA, Ft Worth, Sept
2007
Voir Dire, 14
hours
TCDLA, Dallas,
Cecember 2007
Shooting
Reconstruction and Crime Scene Ballistics, 16 hours
Mar
2007,
Harris County Sheriff’s Office
Crime Victim
Compensation
Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Kerrville, TX April 2007
Child Custody
Investigation 14 hours
Marc Ackerman, Ph D
Specialized
Training Services, Inc
December 2006
Domestic
Violence: Assessment and Treatment 14 hours
Specialized
Training Services, Inc
Donald Dutton, Ph D
December 2006
Advanced Blood
Spatter Analysis Course, Level III, 50 hours
Henderson Forensics & Associates
November, 2006, Canyon, TX
Specialized
advanced training in blood pattern analysis
and crime scene reconstruction
Domestic Violence
and Sexual Assault Volunteer Training Course 47 hours
Safe Place, Austin TX
October 2006
Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault Legal Advocate Training,
16 hours
Safe Place, Austin
TX November, 2006
Defending Child Sexual
Assault Cases 14 hours
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Houston TX March 2007
TCDLA Annual
Forensics Seminar 12.5 hours
Texas Criminal
Lawyers Association
September 2006,
Dallas TX
Methamphetamine
Addiction, Dr. Alex Stalcup
Autopsy Analysis,
Dr. Shridar Natarajan
Firearms Trace
Evidence, Gunshot Wounds, Gunshot Residue, Martin Dante
Blood Spatter and
Crime Scene Reconstruction, Larry Renner
Video Tape
Analysis, Barry G. Dickey
Investigative
Analysis of
Homicide and Violent Crimes 32 hours
Texas Department of
Public Safety
August 2006 Austin,
TX
Child Abuse, Dr
Joni McClain, Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science
DNA Procedure,
Brady Mills, DPS Crime Lab
Medicolegal
Autopsy and Investigation, Dr. Frost, ME
Criminal
Investigative Analysis, G.W. Hildebrand, Retired DPS
Bloodstain
Pattern Analysis, J.D. Robertson, Texas Ranger
Forensic
Entomology, James Olsen, Texas A & M
Officer Involved
Shooting Reconstruction 36 hours
Texas Department of
Public Safety
July 2006 Austin TX
Sexual Assault and
Family Violence Investigator's Course 24 hours
Texas Police Association--ACC
Police Department
April 2006, Austin, TX
Medicolegal
Investigator Certification Course 16 hours
American College of Forensic Examiners
July 2006 Las Vegas, NV
Michael Karagiozis,
D.O. CMI,
Advanced Blood
Pattern Analysis at Crime Scenes
40 hours
Henderson Forensics
and Texas Department of Public Safety
May, 2006,
Austin TX
Sexual Assault and
Family Violence Investigator's Course,
Texas Police Association--Round
Rock Police Dept
24 hours, April 2006,
Round Rock TX
Capital Mitigation
and Habeas, TCDLA
12 hours
April, 2006, Dallas, TX
Personality Disorders, Antoinette McGarrahan, Ph.D.
Psychological Autopsies, J. Ray Hays, Ph.D.
Mitigation Training, Russell Stetler, Scharlette Holdman
Crime Scene Reconstruction
16 Hours
Association for Crime
Scene Reconstruction
Albuquerque, NM--Feb 2006
Bullet Trajectory
Measurement-Michael
Haag
Crime
Scene Photography Techniques--Jerry Goffe
Officer Involved
Shooting--Rod Englert
Capital Murder
Litigation TCDLA
16 hours
South Padre
Island, Dec 2005
Phillip
Wischkaemper, Director Capital Litigation
John Niland,
Texas Defender Services
Danalynn Recer,
Gulf Region Advocacy Center
Background Investigations and Ethics
16 hours
Arlington TX, 2005
Michael Coffey, LPI, Imperative
Information, IRB Search,
American College of
Forensic Examiners
15 hours
San Diego, 2005
Michael Karagiozis,
D.O. CMI,
Medicolegal Investigation
Roy Hazelwood, MS, DABFE,
Serial Sexual Crime
Staged Crime Scenes
Analysis & Reconstruction of Crimes of Violence
24
hours, Kilgore, TX, 2005
Ed Hueske, Criminalist, Kilgore Police
Academy
Reconstruction of Homicide, Suicide,
and Accidental Shooting Deaths
Gunshot wound analysis
Blood Stain Analysis
Sexual Related Deaths and Violent Crime Scene Investigation—
Southern Institute of Forensic Science
24 hours, Houston,
2005
Dr. Stephan Pustilink—Medical
findings in Sexual Related Deaths
Christine Nix--Cognitive Interviewing of Sexual Assault Victims
J.D. Robertson Sergeant, Texas Rangers, Case Management.
Ed Hueske --Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
G.W. Hildebrand—Identifying Serial Sexual Predators
Investigation of Shooting Incidents and Reconstruction of Violent
Crime Scenes
Texas Rangers and Southern Institute of Forensic Science
24
Hours, Houston
2004
Dr.
Vincent DiMaio - Medical Examiner, Bexar County
Tom
Bevel, Bloodstain Patterns
Ed
Hueske, Director of Forensic Training, U of N. Texas
Dr.
Jill Urban, Medical Examiner, Dallas County
Dr.
Hugh Berryman, Forensic Anthropologist
Forensics Seminar,
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
16
Hours, Plano
2004
Lawrence Renner, PA, Blood Spatter Analysis and
Crime Scene
Reconstruction
Dr. Natarajan, Autopsy Analysis, Asphyxiation Deaths
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, DNA Analysis
Martin Dante, Ballistics and gunshot wounds
Dr. Alex Stalcup, Psychology of Addiction
Dr. Matthew Scullin, Child Suggestibility
Medicolegal Death Investigator Internship 2003
El Paso
Medical Examiner’s Office,
El Paso Chief Pathologist,
Corrine Stern, MD ME
96 Hours, El Paso
Practicum in medicolegal death investigation including:
Examined bodies at crime and accident scenes to determine cause and
manner of death
-
Photographed corpses
and scene or scenes where death occurred
-
Examined body for
cause of death and evidence
-
Fingerprinted corpses
-
Collected evidence
related to cause of death
-
Interviewed family,
lay, and law enforcement witnesses
-
Counseled family
members
-
Observed and assisted
with autopsy under direct supervision of medical examiner
-
Investigated deaths
by suicide, motor vehicle accident, overdose, gunshot wounds,
slip and fall, and natural causes.
The
Pathology of Homicide
Southern
Institute of Forensic Science and Texas Rangers
Dr. Ed
Waldrip, Dr. Spence ME, Lubbock
2003--40
Hour Course
Investigation of death caused by civil and criminal means and
pathological injury to the skeleton and soft tissues. Houston TX
Master’s Conference for Advanced Medicolegal Investigation
University
of St. Louis, School of Medicine, St Louis MO
40 Hour Course,
2003
-
Child Physical Abuse: Bruises, Bites, Burns, Belly Injury and Broken
Bones, Cindy Christian, M.D.
-
Inflicted Childhood Neurotrauma, Betty Spivack, M.D.
-
Reconstructing Past Events with Bloodstain Pattern Analysis,
Paul Kish
-
An
Overview of Fire Setting Behavior: It's Much More Than Playing with
Matches, Dian Williams, Ph.D.
-
Investigation of Suspicious Injuries to Children, Phylip J. Peltier
Blood Spatter Analysis
Missouri
Western State College,
45
Hour Course,
2003
St. Joseph,
MO
Blood flight characteristics, impact reactions, drying, drop and
spatter formations and spatter patterns. Analysis and interpretation
of blood spatter and stain patterns.
Medicolegal Death Investigator Certification Course 2003
American
College of Forensic Examiners
16
Hour Course, Phoenix, AZ
Drs Henry
Lee, and Cyril Wecth
Pathological findings and legal issues in death investigation.
Training in DOJ National Guidelines for Crime Scene Investigation
and Death Investigation for Medical Examiners’ Investigators and Law
Enforcement Officers.
Medicolegal Death Investigator Training Course
2002
St. Louis University School of Medicine
32
Hour Course,
St Louis, MO
This course is designed for medicolegal death investigators,
forensic scientists, and physicians who investigate deaths for
Medical Examiner/Coroner offices. It is designed to satisfy the
continuing education requirements for the American Board of
Medicolegal Death Investigators. St Louis MO
Forensic Medical Investigation
Maricopa
County Health System
Mary H.
Dudley, ME
2002--40 Hour Course, Phoenix, AZ
Causes and Manner of Death, Postmortem Changes, Forensic Case
Studies, Forensic Anthropology, Blunt and Sharp Force Injury,
Craniocerebral Injury, Motor Vehicle and Aircraft Fatalities,
Firearms Identification/Gunshot Wounds, Sudden Unexpected Natural
Deaths, Asphyxia and Fire Deaths, Electrical/Lightening, Forensic
Toxicology, Alcohol and Drug Related, Child Fatality Review, Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Elderly Abuse
Basic Medicolegal Death
Investigator Training, 2007, 25 hours
University of New Mexico
School of Medicine
Office of the Medical Investigator, Albuquerque, NM
Medical Investigator Training
Office
of Medical Investigation, New Mexico Medical Examiner’s Office
40
Hour Course, Albuquerque, NM 1989
Investigation of
deaths caused by vehicle accident, aircraft crash, explosions,
homicide and suicide. Examination of corpse to determine cause
and mechanism of death.
Medical
Malpractice Investigations
Texas
Association of Licensed Investigators
Pretrial discovery,
investigation, and evaluation of medical malpractice cases in
civil litigation
TCDLA/TDS
Forensics Seminar 2003,
16 hours, Plano, TX
Annual Forensic
Seminar
Crime Scene Reconstruction
32
Hour Course, Denver
Tom
Bevel and Ross Gardner
This specialized
course provides training in evaluating complex crime scenes for
conducting crime scene analysis and reconstruction. Denver
Handguns and Ballistics
16
Hour Course, Quantico VA
2003
FBI Firing Range,
Familiarization with revolvers and semiautomatic handguns and
handgun ballistics, Quantico, VA,
Officer Involved Shooting Reconstruction 2002
Ed
Hueske, Denton Police Academy
40 Hour
Course, Ft Worth
Techniques used in
the reconstruction of shooting incidents. Lectures and extensive
hands-on exercises and range demonstrations. Case studies add
additional information. Denton TX
Traffic Accident Investigation and Reconstruction 2002
Marules & Associates
16 Hour
Course, San Antonio
Investigative and
analytical skills used to make more informed, provable, and
cost-effective proximate cause analysis. San Antonio
John E. Reid Advanced Interview and Interrogation Techniques
40
Hour Course
Austin TX
Intense advanced
level Reid 9-Step Behavior Analysis Interview and Interrogation
Techniques for criminal investigators.
Profiling and Crime Analysis 2003
16
Hour Course
Gregg
McCrary, FBI retired
Using inductive
reasoning in developing a profile of the offender through
evaluation of the specific criminal act, the details of the
crime scene, analysis of the victim; and evaluation of the
police and medical examiner’s reports. Austin
Fingerprint Development
16
Hours 2004, San Antonio
Public
Agency Training Council
Latent fingerprint
development and lifting using regular and magnetic powders,
fluorescent powders, iodine, crystal violet, ninhydrin,
cyanoacrylate fuming and other methods of developing prints.
Homicide Investigation
El Paso Texas Association of Licensed Investigators 1987
A seminar on
interrogation techniques taught by Gus Rose who interrogated Lee
Harvey Oswald.
Investigation of Sudden Unexpected Death
Master
Detectives International
16
hour course, 1985
El Paso TX
Investigation of
sudden unexpected deaths caused by job related injuries, vehicle
accident, aircraft crash, explosions, homicide and suicide.
Eye
Witness Testimony, San Antonio
Texas
Association of Licensed Investigators
Application and
veracity of US Supreme Court guidelines on testing the validity
and credibility of eye witness testimony and cross race eye
witness identification.
Oak
Hill Fire Academy 2001--3 Month Course, Austin
Fire Fighting:
Structural Fires, Wild Land Fires, Fire equipment, Methods
of Entry, Fire Rescue, CPR, Mass Casualties.
Practical Crime Scene And Arson Photography
32 hours, San
Antonio,
2003
Public Agency Training Council
The proper techniques
for recording and preserving evidence
through
photography
Financial Investigative Techniques
US Department of the Treasury--Internal Revenue Service
8 hours, Austin
Basic techniques of
financial investigation of businesses.
Private Crime Lab Seminar
Texas Association of Licensed Investigators
Criminalistics
technology and techniques in modern crime labs.
Electronic Eavesdropping Countermeasures
50 Hour Advanced Course,1989
Texas A & M School of Engineering
Detection of
telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier current
devices, and other
wire tap and bugging devices.
Electronic Eavesdropping
Countermeasures
Texas
A & M School of Engineering,
Basic
and Advanced Courses
80 Hour Course, College Station, 1989
Detection of
telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier current devices,
and other wire tap and bugging devices.
Electronic Surveillance Countermeasures
Advanced Update Course
Jarvis International Intelligence Academy
40 Hour
Tulsa 1989
Update course on the
theory and practical application of wire tap and bugging devices
and techniques and equipment used in detection of wire taps and
bugging devices. Update on technology and detection of telephone
wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier current devices, and other
wire tap and bugging devices.
Electronic Surveillance Countermeasures
Jarvis International Intelligence Academy
Basic and Advanced Courses
80 Hour Course
Tulsa 1989
Theory and practical
application of wire tap and bugging devices and techniques and
equipment used in detection of wire taps and bugging devices.
Detection of telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier
current devices, and other wire tap and bugging devices.
Basic Forensic Hypnosis
The
principles and procedures used in forensic hypnosis.
Professional Development
Course
Ethics and business practices in private investigation.
Internet Investigation
for Law Enforcement
February 2008 12 hour course
Harris County Sheriff’s Training Academy
David Vine Associtates
Dynamics of Sexual
Assault
EVAW on-line course 4.0 hours April 2007
Preliminary Investigation of Sexual Assault
EVAW on-line course 4.0 hours April 2007
Dynamics of Domestic
Violence
EVAW online course 4.0 hours, April 2007
Law and Investigative
Strategy
EVAW online course 4.0
hours, April 2007
Crime Victim
Compensation
Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Kerrville, TX April 2007
LITIGATION SUPPORT
Propounding and Answering Interrogatories in Civil Litigation
San
Francisco Association of Legal Assistants
Discovery in Civil Litigation
San
Francisco Association of Legal Assistants
Effective Legal Research
San
Francisco Association of Legal Assistants
Affirmative Defense of Insanity Conference 2003
Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, Austin TX
Capital Issues, 2003
TCDLA/TDS Hunt TX
Defendant’s Future Dangerousness
Texas Defender Services, 2003, Plano TX
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