Louis L. Akin, CMI, FT

Crime Scene Analyst and Certified Medicolegal Investigator

 

Quaeras de dubiis legem bene discere si vis

(Inquire into them to see what things are true)

 

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ACADEMIC

                        

University of Texas       City College San Francisco  

     at Austin                      Associates Degree  

B.A. American Studies          With Honors

With Departmental Honors     

                                                       

                        

University of Texas                 University of Texas

Golden Key                              Phi Kappa Phi

National Honor Society              Honor Society

 

              

City College San Francisco              

Associates Degree, Criminology

SPECIALIZED INVESTIGATIVE AND FORENSIC TRAINING

Actual Innocence and Habeas 23 hours

Center for American and International Law

Plano TX

August 16-19

 

New England Forensics Seminar

National Association of Medical Examiners

Colby College, Waterville, ME

August 10-14 2009

 

International Association of Forensic Sciences

Eighteenth Triennial Meeting

New Orleans, LA

July 21-25, 2008

 

Homicide Research Working Group

June 11-13, 2008
Sam Houston State University
College of Criminals Justice

 

Texas Concealed Handgun Certificate

Certificate of Training Texas Government Code 411.188

April 18, 2008

 

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 200

 

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Technical Surveillance Counter Measures 32 hour course

Research Electronics International

CPM 700/ OSCOR Sweep Equipment Training

Nashville TN October 2008

                           

 

 

 

 

  

 

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 Associates

PARALEGAL 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

 

        

 

Shooting Reconstruction
Michael Haag, Instructor
Eugene Police Department
Eugene Oregon
August 4-9, 2008

 

Firearms Trace Evidence and

Gunshot Wound Interpretation

Martin Dante, Instructor

Dallas TX

October 2008

 

Shooting Reconstruction and Crime Scene Ballistics,

16 hours
Mar 2007,
Harris County Sheriff’s Office

 

     

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

    

Medical Death Investigation

Public Agency Training Council

Tracey Corey, ME

Comal County Sheriff's Office

December 16-17, 2008

                      

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

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. Sridhar 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

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

EVAW

 

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

 

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