Our good friend, Ron Moore, Esquire writes us “I actu­ally had a client research­ing lawyers who looked at the Truth About Foren­sic Sci­ence geek of the week posts and liked my answers. It made a dif­fer­ence in who he decided to hire. Thanks!” So, there is a lot of value in www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week Chal­lenge. Try it out today.

Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Thanks to the com­bined inspi­ra­tion of Chris­tine Funk, Esquire and Chuck Ram­say, Esquire, a new twist of this blog is being intro­duced. A weekly fun foren­sic sci­ence challenge/trivia ques­tion. The win­ner will be affec­tion­ately dubbed “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week.”

Rules:

1. The chal­lenge will be posted Sun­day morn­ing 12 noon EST.
2. Answers to the chal­lenge will be entered by respond­ing to this blog post or thewww.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.
3. All com­ments that are answers to this blog will released after 9pm EST.
4. The first com­plete and cor­rect answer will be awarded the envi­ous title of “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week”
5. “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” is enti­tled a one time post of his/her pic­ture on this blog and the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page. The cov­eted title will be his/her for that week. Addi­tion­ally, a win­ner will be allowed one link to one web­page of his/her choice. Both the pic­ture and the weblink is sub­ject to the approval of Justin J McShane, Esquire and will only be screened for appro­pri­ate taste.
6. The win­ner will be announced Sun­day night.
7. A win­ner may only repeat two times in a row, then will have to sit out a week to be eli­gi­ble again. This per­son, who was the two time in a row win­ner, may answer the ques­tion, but will be dis­qual­i­fied from the honor so as to allow oth­ers to participate.
8. This is for learn­ing and for fun. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO ANSWER THE WEEKLY QUESTION. So give it a shot.

Here it is:

The www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com “Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” chal­lenge ques­tion. Remem­ber the first full and com­plete answer wins the honor and also gets his/her photo dis­played, brag­ging rights for the week and finally web­site promotion.

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: Kevin Feeney, Esquire

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Week 91: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 92: Laura Magnuson

The Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Please visit the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.

The week 92 “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” hon­ors goes to: Laura Magnuson

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week winner

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

Our Geek of the Week answered:

This is Kurt Dubowski. He’s best known for his work with toxicology.

[BLOGGER’S NOTE: There were a great deal of Hon­or­able Men­tions including:

• Josh D. Lee, Esquire who wrote: “Kurt M. Dubowski, Pro­fes­sor and researcher from the Uni­veristy of Okla­homa. Prob­a­bly the best know Amer­i­can researcher on alco­hol con­sump­tion and impair­ment. Very clearly a friend of the gov­ern­ment with a gov­ern­men­tal and pros­e­cu­to­r­ial slant to his pub­lished papers.”
• Dean­dra Grant, Esquire who wrote: “Looks like Kurt Dubowski to me.  He is the grand pooh bah of alco­hol research in regards to its effect on humans.  Okla­homa pro­fes­sor.  World famous.  One of the fathers — if not the father — of alco­hol breath testing.”
• Peter Carini, Esquire who wrote: “Kurt Dubowski. Teaches at the Borken­stein pro­gram at Uni­ver­sity of Indi­ana.  Con­sid­ered one of the pio­neer experts in breath alco­hol testing.”
• Chuck Rath­burn, Esquire who wrote: “Kurt Dubowski.  He is the most pub­lished author in the field of breath alco­hol test­ing in the United States.  He and A.W. Jones are the two most pub­lished [alco­hol research] authors in the world. One of his most cited works is the paper Qual­ity Assur­ance in Breath-Alcohol Analy­sis.  He is prob­a­bly most famous for this paper in that as Direc­tor of the Okla­homa Breath Alco­hol Pro­gram, he refused to imple­ment the pro­ce­dures he espoused in the paper.”
• Chuck Ram­say, Esquire who wrote “Week 92: This is Kurt Dubowski. What is he “best” known for? This is rather sub­jec­tive, Justin. I know him as the foren­sic sci­en­tist from Okla­homa who has taught for decades at the Borken­stein Insti­tute, but is bet­ter known for his arti­cles on alco­hol detec­tion. My favorite arti­cle of his is “Absorp­tion, Dis­tri­b­u­tion and Elim­i­na­tion of Alco­hol:
  High­way Safety Aspects.” He also is a past mem­ber of the National Safety Council’s Com­mit­tee on Alco­hol and other Drugs, which set model DWI laws and pro­ce­dures for the states.”
• Mary Cather­ine McMur­ray who wrote “Was it coin­ci­dence that you chose Dubowski on the 92nd week when he just hap­pens to be 92 years old as of last September?”
• Glen Nee­ley, Esquire who wrote “Kurt M. Dubowski was edu­cated at Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity, New York Uni­ver­sity (A.B.), and The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity (M.Sc., Ph.D.). He holds an hon­orary Doc­tor of Laws degree con­ferred by Cap­i­tal Uni­ver­sity. Doc­tor Dubowski joined the med­ical fac­ulty of The Uni­ver­sity of Okla­homa in 1961, and is now George Lynn Cross Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Med­i­cine. He is Prin­ci­pal Research Sci­en­tist, Bioaero­nau­ti­cal Sci­ences Research Lab­o­ra­tory, Civil Aero­space Med­ical Insti­tute, Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion, Okla­homa City, OK; and is also Chair­man Emer­i­tus, Board of Tests for Alco­hol and Drug Influ­ence and State Direc­tor Emer­i­tus of Tests for Alco­hol and Drug Influ­ence of the State of Okla­homa. He has been a char­ter mem­ber of the Indi­ana University/Bloomington Borken­stein Course fac­ulty since 1958. His pro­fes­sional activ­i­ties have focused on the twin tracks of lab­o­ra­tory med­i­cine and foren­sic sci­ence, espe­cially clin­i­cal and foren­sic chem­istry and tox­i­col­ogy, in their research, teach­ing, and ser­vice aspects, result­ing in about 180 major pub­li­ca­tions in the sci­en­tific lit­er­a­ture. Active in many pro­fes­sional orga­ni­za­tions, he is Past Pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Foren­sic Sci­ences, of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Clin­i­cal Chem­istry, and of the Amer­i­can Board of Foren­sic Tox­i­col­ogy; and is Pres­i­dent Emer­i­tus of the Amer­i­can Board of Clin­i­cal Chem­istry. He has been a mem­ber of the National Safety Coun­cil Com­mit­tee on Alco­hol & Other Drugs since 1950; and is a past mem­ber of the Com­mit­tee on Alco­hol, Other Drugs, and Trans­porta­tion of the Trans­porta­tion Research Board, National Research Coun­cil, National Acad­emy of Sci­ences. His research has involved var­i­ous aspects of clin­i­cal chem­istry and tox­i­col­ogy method­ol­ogy as well as many clin­i­cal stud­ies with human sub­jects. He has been par­tic­u­larly active in stud­ies on the analy­sis, metab­o­lism and phar­ma­co­ki­net­ics of ethanol as well as in var­i­ous foren­sic sci­ence prac­tice aspects of ethanol, and in issues of drug-impaired dri­ving. Over the past forty years, his research has also included stud­ies on the behav­ioral tox­i­col­ogy of mar­i­huana and other sub­stances which affect the cen­tral ner­vous sys­tem and are sub­ject to abuse. That work includes devel­op­ment and eval­u­a­tion of tests for drugs-of-abuse in bio­log­i­cal spec­i­mens, and con­sul­ta­tion for many gov­ern­men­tal agen­cies. He was a char­ter mem­ber of the Drug-Testing Advi­sory Board of the U.S. Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices. Doc­tor Dubowski’s pro­fes­sional hon­ors and awards include selec­tion as a Wid­mark Lau­re­ate of the Inter­na­tional Coun­cil on Alco­hol, Drugs, and Traf­fic Safety (1980), con­fer­ral of the George Lynn Cross Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of Med­i­cine chair by the Uni­ver­sity of Okla­homa (1981), the first Rolla N. Harger Award of the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Foren­sic Sci­ences (1983), des­ig­na­tion as a Dis­tin­guished Fel­low of the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Foren­sic Sci­ences (1991), the Robert F. Borken­stein Award of the National Safety Coun­cil (1992), des­ig­na­tion as a Dis­tin­guished Alum­nus of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity (1994), the Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice to Safety Award of the National Safety Coun­cil (1995), the Award for Out­stand­ing Con­tri­bu­tions to Clin­i­cal Chem­istry by the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Clin­i­cal Chem­istry (1996), estab­lish­ment of the Kurt M. Dubowski Award by the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion for Chem­i­cal Test­ing (2002), and procla­ma­tion as an Hon­orary Texas Ranger by the Texas Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety (2007).”]

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: Kevin Feeney, Esquire

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Week 91: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 92: Laura Magnuson

Our good friend, Ron Moore, Esquire writes us “I actu­ally had a client research­ing lawyers who looked at the Truth About Foren­sic Sci­ence geek of the week posts and liked my answers. It made a dif­fer­ence in who he decided to hire. Thanks!” So, there is a lot of value in www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week Chal­lenge. Try it out today.

Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Thanks to the com­bined inspi­ra­tion of Chris­tine Funk, Esquire and Chuck Ram­say, Esquire, a new twist of this blog is being intro­duced. A weekly fun foren­sic sci­ence challenge/trivia ques­tion. The win­ner will be affec­tion­ately dubbed “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week.”

Rules:

1. The chal­lenge will be posted Sun­day morn­ing 12 noon EST.
2. Answers to the chal­lenge will be entered by respond­ing to this blog post or thewww.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.
3. All com­ments that are answers to this blog will released after 9pm EST.
4. The first com­plete and cor­rect answer will be awarded the envi­ous title of “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week”
5. “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” is enti­tled a one time post of his/her pic­ture on this blog and the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page. The cov­eted title will be his/her for that week. Addi­tion­ally, a win­ner will be allowed one link to one web­page of his/her choice. Both the pic­ture and the weblink is sub­ject to the approval of Justin J McShane, Esquire and will only be screened for appro­pri­ate taste.
6. The win­ner will be announced Sun­day night.
7. A win­ner may only repeat two times in a row, then will have to sit out a week to be eli­gi­ble again. This per­son, who was the two time in a row win­ner, may answer the ques­tion, but will be dis­qual­i­fied from the honor so as to allow oth­ers to participate.
8. This is for learn­ing and for fun. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO ANSWER THE WEEKLY QUESTION. So give it a shot.

Here it is:

The www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com “Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” chal­lenge ques­tion. Remem­ber the first full and com­plete answer wins the honor and also gets his/her photo dis­played, brag­ging rights for the week and finally web­site promotion.

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Week 91: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

The Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Please visit the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.

The week 79 “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” hon­ors goes to: Kevin Feeney, Esquire

Kevin Feeney has been aggres­sively defend­ing peo­ple charged with crimes since 1991.

He received his Bach­e­lor of Arts degree from West­min­ster Col­lege in New Wilm­ing­ton, PA, in 1986 and received his Juris Doc­tor­ate degree from the Dick­in­son School of Law in Carlisle, PA, in 1990. Mr. Feeney con­tin­ued as a law clerk for Pres­i­dent Judge Albert E. Acker of the Mer­cer County Court of Com­mon Pleas in Mer­cer, PA.

As a Senior Trial Attor­ney with the Berks County Pub­lic Defender’s Office, Mr. Feeney suc­cess­fully defended jury tri­als of all major crim­i­nal charges includ­ing homi­cide, sex­ual assault, rob­bery and weapons offenses. He has suc­cess­fully defended clients in Megan’s Law hear­ings and all man­ner of pre-trial motions, includ­ing sup­pres­sion of evi­dence and habeas cor­pus. He has defended cases with DNA and elec­tronic sur­veil­lance evidence.

Mr. Feeney is qual­i­fied to han­dle death penalty cases under the Penn­syl­va­nia Supreme Court’s high stan­dards for defense counsel.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week winner

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

2. What is it used for?

3. How does it work?

4. Are there any known issues with respect to its foren­sic suit­abil­ity? If so, what?

Our Geek of the Week answered:

The photo is an enradd device. It is a speed tim­ing device used in Penn­syl­va­nia speed traps. The two pieces are set up on oppo­site sides of the road and a car passes through two laser beams. It is sup­posed to tell the police how fast the car is going.

The main issue is that if the one beam hits your car on one place (like the tire) and the sec­ond is a lit­tle higher up and it hits the bumper then whole cal­cu­la­tion of speed will be off. The dis­tance is so close that a small dif­fer­ence will give a wrong speed. The police test it with a police car, but then it it used on SUV and small cars. It also has to be on very level ground, but th side of the road is not level.

I also under­stand they are expensive.

[BLOGGER’S NOTE: Great answer! ]

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: Kevin Feeney, Esquire

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Week 91: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

 

The Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

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The week 91 “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” hon­ors goes to: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Chuck Ram­say has prac­ticed Crim­i­nal Defense since 1995 and gained acquit­tals in nearly every type of case from DWI to Mur­der. He prides him­self on being on the cut­ting edge of crim­i­nal defense and has helped pio­neer a num­ber of defenses in Min­nesota, includ­ing faulty eye­wit­ness iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, false con­fes­sions, and the right of a defen­dant to present alter­na­tive sus­pects to a jury. Today he prac­tices pri­mar­ily in the area of DWI/DUI crim­i­nal defense and appeals, and civil for­fei­tures aris­ing out of alleged crim­i­nal con­duct. He has tried dozens of cases to ver­dict, the major­ity of which have resulted in a not guilty.  An effec­tive appel­late lawyer, Chuck has appeared before the Min­nesota Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court in approx­i­mately 75 cases.

Ram­say is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Madison and of William Mitchell Col­lege of Law. He is also a grad­u­ate of the pres­ti­gious Robert F. Borken­stein Course on Alco­hol and High­way Safety: Test­ing Research and Lit­i­ga­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Indi­ana. In 2007. He is a mem­ber of the Min­nesota Soci­ety for Crim­i­nal Jus­tice (MSCJ) – a pres­ti­gious group of attor­neys lim­ited in num­ber to 50 of the top crim­i­nal defense attor­neys in the state. Chuck is also an active mem­ber of the National Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and the Min­nesota Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers (MACDL). Chuck has been named Super Lawyer, being among the top 40 of the crim­i­nal defense lawyers in Min­nesota in the last two years.  A Cer­ti­fied Intox­i­lyzer 5000 oper­a­tor, Ram­say has tes­ti­fied about the short­com­ings of the Intox­i­lyzer 5000.  Chuck also reg­u­larly serves as a fac­ulty mem­ber at con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion classes for health care pro­fes­sion­als where he lec­tures on the top­ics of bound­aries and ethics, and rep­re­sents var­i­ous pro­fes­sion­als before their licens­ing boards and in the legal sys­tem.  Chuck has been named Super Lawyer by Min­nesota Law & Pol­i­tics, Twin Cities Busi­ness Monthly and Min­neapo­lis St. Paul Mag­a­zine. This honor is bestowed upon the top 5% of Min­nesota lawyers as selected by their peers. In 2007 and again in 2008, he was among the top 40 of all the crim­i­nal defense lawyers in Min­nesota.  Through­out his career he has suc­cess­fully chal­lenged the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of unjust laws and invalid and unre­li­able sci­en­tific test­ing meth­ods. Most recently he inter­vened in the fed­eral source code law­suit and obtained access to the actual source code for the Intox­i­lyzer 5000. He is one of the three lead coun­sel of the Source Code Coali­tion. Chuck is also widely rec­og­nized at the lead­ing attor­ney on attack­ing Min­neso­tas urine test­ing pro­gram, hav­ing obtained court orders sup­press­ing the urine test­ing as unsci­en­tific, unre­li­able and out­right absurd.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week winner

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

Our Geek of the Week answered:

Gary Wells is a dis­tin­guished pro­fes­sor of Psy­chol­ogy at Iowa State Uni­ver­sity and the Stavish Chair in the Social Sci­ences. Cur­rently he is the Direc­tor of Social Sci­ences for the Amer­i­can Judi­ca­ture Society’s Cen­ter for Foren­sic Sci­ence and Pub­lic Pol­icy. He presently serves as a con­sul­tant to judges, law enforce­ment, defense coun­sel, and pros­e­cu­tion coun­sel in state and fed­eral crim­i­nal cases involv­ing eye­wit­ness mem­ory, crime inves­ti­ga­tion pro­ce­dures, and evi­dence eval­u­a­tion.  He is best known for demon­strat­ing the lack of reli­a­bil­ity of eye wit­ness iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. He is par­tic­u­larly known for improv­ing eye­wit­ness iden­ti­fi­ca­tions for line­ups. He pub­lished stud­ies show­ing that sequen­tial lineup pre­sen­ta­tion sig­nif­i­cantly reduced the amount of false iden­ti­fi­ca­tions made by wit­nesses rather than using simul­ta­ne­ous lineups.

[BLOGGER’S NOTE: We had a lot of hon­or­able men­tions (they weren’t as quick as Chuck) including:

• Justin Har­ris who answered “1. I believe that is Gary Wells (who I believe holds a PhD).
  2. He is one of the lead­ing experts in foren­sic eye­wit­ness iden­ti­fi­ca­tion.  He is a strong advo­cate for pol­icy changes that fol­low the “double-blind” approach to iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dures.  He was instru­men­tal in devel­op­ing updat­ing approaches to iden­ti­fi­ca­tions, as well.”
• Laura Mag­nu­son who answered “That is Gary Wells. He is best known for his work with flaws in eye­wit­ness identifications.”]

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Week 91: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Our good friend, Ron Moore, Esquire writes us “I actu­ally had a client research­ing lawyers who looked at the Truth About Foren­sic Sci­ence geek of the week posts and liked my answers. It made a dif­fer­ence in who he decided to hire. Thanks!” So, there is a lot of value in www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week Chal­lenge. Try it out today.

Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Thanks to the com­bined inspi­ra­tion of Chris­tine Funk, Esquire and Chuck Ram­say, Esquire, a new twist of this blog is being intro­duced. A weekly fun foren­sic sci­ence challenge/trivia ques­tion. The win­ner will be affec­tion­ately dubbed “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week.”

Rules:

1. The chal­lenge will be posted Sun­day morn­ing 12 noon EST.
2. Answers to the chal­lenge will be entered by respond­ing to this blog post or thewww.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.
3. All com­ments that are answers to this blog will released after 9pm EST.
4. The first com­plete and cor­rect answer will be awarded the envi­ous title of “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week”
5. “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” is enti­tled a one time post of his/her pic­ture on this blog and the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page. The cov­eted title will be his/her for that week. Addi­tion­ally, a win­ner will be allowed one link to one web­page of his/her choice. Both the pic­ture and the weblink is sub­ject to the approval of Justin J McShane, Esquire and will only be screened for appro­pri­ate taste.
6. The win­ner will be announced Sun­day night.
7. A win­ner may only repeat two times in a row, then will have to sit out a week to be eli­gi­ble again. This per­son, who was the two time in a row win­ner, may answer the ques­tion, but will be dis­qual­i­fied from the honor so as to allow oth­ers to participate.
8. This is for learn­ing and for fun. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO ANSWER THE WEEKLY QUESTION. So give it a shot.

Here it is:

The www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com “Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” chal­lenge ques­tion. Remem­ber the first full and com­plete answer wins the honor and also gets his/her photo dis­played, brag­ging rights for the week and finally web­site promotion.

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

The Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

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The week 90 “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” hon­ors goes to: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Crim­i­nal defense attor­ney, Joseph C. Rome com­pleted his under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion at Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­sity, earn­ing a Bach­e­lor of Arts degree in 1999. He received his Juris Doc­tor­ate degree from West­ern New Eng­land Col­lege School of Law in 2005.

Since grad­u­at­ing from law school in 2005, he has become a Mem­ber of both the Wash­ing­ton State and Hawaii State Bar. Attor­ney Rome moved to Maui in 2006, and worked at the Hawaii State Pub­lic Defender’s Office where he acquired a broad base of legal knowl­edge and hands on experience.

In 2009 he opened his own prac­tice with a pri­mary focus on help­ing clients with DUI offenses and seri­ous crimes. Attor­ney Rome is a Wash­ing­ton Crim­i­nal Lawyer who has proven expe­ri­ence and is highly qual­i­fied rep­re­sent­ing clients with DUI offenses or seri­ous crimes through­out the state of Wash­ing­ton.  Mr. Rome is a mem­ber of the National Col­lege for DUI Defense, Wash­ing­ton Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers and The National Asso­ci­a­tion of Crim­i­nal Defense Lawyers.  He has been both cer­ti­fied to admin­is­ter the Stan­dard­ized Field Sobri­ety Tests (SFSTs) and has received advance train­ing in the SFST to become a cer­ti­fied instruc­tor in the SFSTs. Attor­ney Rome recently trav­eled to Cal­i­for­nia where he assisted in the instruc­tion of attor­neys attempt­ing to be cer­ti­fied in the SFSTs. He is one of the few attor­neys who has demon­strated knowl­edge of the sci­ence and foren­sic use of road­side sobri­ety test­ing and intox­i­ca­tion far beyond the scope of the National High­way Traf­fic and Safety Admin­is­tra­tion (NHTSA) train­ing by becom­ing Foren­sic Sobri­ety Assess­ment (FSA) Cer­ti­fied. In 2011 he was selected to study at the pres­ti­gious Trial Lawyer Col­lege with Gerry Spence, one of the nation’s Top Trial Lawyers who has never lost a crim­i­nal case either as a pros­e­cu­tor or a defense attor­ney.  Attor­ney Rome, is known for his aggres­sive and highly suc­cess­ful rep­re­sen­ta­tion of those accused of DUI offenses and seri­ous felonies.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week winner!

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

Our Geek of the Week answered:

Ray Krone. Krone was labeled “the snag­gle tooth killer” (a fea­ture which has since been cor­rected) and spent 10 years in prison, includ­ing two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a Phoenix, Ari­zona bar­tender in 1991. The woman was found dead in a bar where Krone played darts. On April 8, 2002, Krone left prison after DNA evi­dence proved that he did not mur­der the vic­tim. He was the 100th inmate exon­er­ated from death row since the death sen­tence was rein­stated in 1976.

[BLOGGER’S NOTE: On the morn­ing of Decem­ber 29, 1991, the body of the thirty-six year old vic­tim was found, nude, in the men’s restroom of the Phoenix, Ari­zona bar where she worked. She had been fatally stabbed, and the per­pe­tra­tor left behind lit­tle phys­i­cal evi­dence. Blood at the crime scene matched the victim’s type, and saliva on her body came from some­one with the most com­mon blood type. There was no semen and no DNA tests were performed.

Inves­ti­ga­tors relied on bite marks on the victim’s breast and neck. Upon hear­ing that the vic­tim had told a friend that a reg­u­lar cus­tomer named Ray Krone was to help her close up the bar the pre­vi­ous night, police asked Krone to make a Sty­ro­foam impres­sion of his teeth for com­par­i­son. On Decem­ber 31, 1991, Krone was arrested and charged with mur­der, kid­nap­ping, and sex­ual assault.

At his 1992 trial, Krone main­tained his inno­cence, claim­ing to be asleep in his bed at the time of the crime. Experts for the pros­e­cu­tion, how­ever, tes­ti­fied that the bite-marks found on the victim’s body matched the impres­sion that Krone had made on the Sty­ro­foam and a jury con­victed him on the counts of mur­der and kid­nap­ping. He was sen­tenced to death and a con­sec­u­tive twenty-one year term of impris­on­ment, respec­tively. Krone was found not guilty of the sex­ual assault.

Krone won a new trial on appeal in 1996, but was con­victed again, mainly on the state’s sup­posed expert bite-mark tes­ti­mony. This time, how­ever, the judge sen­tenced him to life in prison, cit­ing doubts about whether or not Krone was the true killer.

It was not until 2002, after Krone had served more than ten years in prison, that DNA test­ing would prove his inno­cence. DNA test­ing con­ducted on the saliva and blood found on the vic­tim excluded Krone as the source and instead matched a man named Ken­neth Phillips. Phillips was incar­cer­ated on an unre­lated sex crime and, although he had lived a short dis­tance from the bar where the vic­tim worked, he had never been con­sid­ered a sus­pect in her murder.

On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison and on April 24th, the Dis­trict Attorney’s office filed to for­mally dis­miss all charges against him. Mur­der and sex­ual assault charges have since been brought against Phillips.

Ray Krone spent more than a decade in prison, some of it on death row, before DNA test­ing cleared his name. He is the 100th for­mer death row inmate freed because of inno­cence since the rein­state­ment of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the United States in 1976. He was the twelfth death row inmate whose inno­cence has been proven through post­con­vic­tion DNA test­ing. Prior to his arrest, Krone had no pre­vi­ous crim­i­nal record, had been hon­or­ably dis­charged from the mil­i­tary, and had worked in the postal ser­vice for seven years. Source: The Inno­cence Project-Ray Krone]

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Week 90: Joseph Rome, Esquire

Our good friend, Ron Moore, Esquire writes us “I actu­ally had a client research­ing lawyers who looked at the Truth About Foren­sic Sci­ence geek of the week posts and liked my answers. It made a dif­fer­ence in who he decided to hire. Thanks!” So, there is a lot of value in www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week Chal­lenge. Try it out today.

Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Thanks to the com­bined inspi­ra­tion of Chris­tine Funk, Esquire and Chuck Ram­say, Esquire, a new twist of this blog is being intro­duced. A weekly fun foren­sic sci­ence challenge/trivia ques­tion. The win­ner will be affec­tion­ately dubbed “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week.”

Rules:

1. The chal­lenge will be posted Sun­day morn­ing 12 noon EST.
2. Answers to the chal­lenge will be entered by respond­ing to this blog post or thewww.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.
3. All com­ments that are answers to this blog will released after 9pm EST.
4. The first com­plete and cor­rect answer will be awarded the envi­ous title of “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week”
5. “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” is enti­tled a one time post of his/her pic­ture on this blog and the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page. The cov­eted title will be his/her for that week. Addi­tion­ally, a win­ner will be allowed one link to one web­page of his/her choice. Both the pic­ture and the weblink is sub­ject to the approval of Justin J McShane, Esquire and will only be screened for appro­pri­ate taste.
6. The win­ner will be announced Sun­day night.
7. A win­ner may only repeat two times in a row, then will have to sit out a week to be eli­gi­ble again. This per­son, who was the two time in a row win­ner, may answer the ques­tion, but will be dis­qual­i­fied from the honor so as to allow oth­ers to participate.
8. This is for learn­ing and for fun. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO ANSWER THE WEEKLY QUESTION. So give it a shot.

Here it is:

The www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com “Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” chal­lenge ques­tion. Remem­ber the first full and com­plete answer wins the honor and also gets his/her photo dis­played, brag­ging rights for the week and finally web­site promotion.

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Week 89: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU.

Our good friend, Ron Moore, Esquire writes us “I actu­ally had a client research­ing lawyers who looked at the Truth About Foren­sic Sci­ence geek of the week posts and liked my answers. It made a dif­fer­ence in who he decided to hire. Thanks!” So, there is a lot of value in www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week Chal­lenge. Try it out today.

Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Thanks to the com­bined inspi­ra­tion of Chris­tine Funk, Esquire and Chuck Ram­say, Esquire, a new twist of this blog is being intro­duced. A weekly fun foren­sic sci­ence challenge/trivia ques­tion. The win­ner will be affec­tion­ately dubbed “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week.”

Rules:

1. The chal­lenge will be posted Sun­day morn­ing 12 noon EST.
2. Answers to the chal­lenge will be entered by respond­ing to this blog post or thewww.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.
3. All com­ments that are answers to this blog will released after 9pm EST.
4. The first com­plete and cor­rect answer will be awarded the envi­ous title of “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week”
5. “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” is enti­tled a one time post of his/her pic­ture on this blog and the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page. The cov­eted title will be his/her for that week. Addi­tion­ally, a win­ner will be allowed one link to one web­page of his/her choice. Both the pic­ture and the weblink is sub­ject to the approval of Justin J McShane, Esquire and will only be screened for appro­pri­ate taste.
6. The win­ner will be announced Sun­day night.
7. A win­ner may only repeat two times in a row, then will have to sit out a week to be eli­gi­ble again. This per­son, who was the two time in a row win­ner, may answer the ques­tion, but will be dis­qual­i­fied from the honor so as to allow oth­ers to participate.
8. This is for learn­ing and for fun. EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO TRY TO ANSWER THE WEEKLY QUESTION. So give it a shot.

Here it is:

The www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com “Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” chal­lenge ques­tion. Remem­ber the first full and com­plete answer wins the honor and also gets his/her photo dis­played, brag­ging rights for the week and finally web­site promotion.

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

The Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week

Please visit the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Face­Book fan page.

The week 88 “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week” hon­ors goes to: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire

Rocky Bab­son was born and raised in Charleston, South Car­olina. After high school, he joined the United States Air Force Reserve in 1993, where he was assigned to the 315th Secu­rity Forces Squadron. There­after he attended the Uni­ver­sity of South Car­olina (GO COCKS!).  After grad­u­at­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of South Car­olina, he moved to Miami, Florida to attend law school at St. Thomas Uni­ver­sity School of Law in Miami.  While in Miami, he remained active in the Air Force Reserve and was attached to the 482nd Secu­rity Forces Squadron.  While still attend­ing law school, he was dis­patched to serve in Kuwait with the 9th Air Expe­di­tionary Forces at Ali al Salem Air Base, Kuwait.  While there, he received sev­eral accom­mo­da­tions, includ­ing the Armed Forces Expe­di­tionary Medal.  Rocky Bab­son has rep­re­sented many of those accused of a crime.  His prac­tice is pri­mar­ily focused on DUI, crim­i­nal law, work­ers com­pen­sa­tion injuries and seri­ous per­sonal injury plaintiff’s cases, includ­ing wrong­ful death, prod­uct lia­bil­ity and death cases.  He is a NHTSA prac­ti­tioner of the Stan­dard­ized Fields Sobri­ety Tests. He has com­pleted the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety Foren­sic Chro­matog­ra­phy course. He has attended the NCDD Win­ter Ses­sion and the NCDD/TCDLA Mas­ter­ing Sci­en­tific Evi­dence course.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week winner!

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

Our Geek of the Week answered:

[He answered through our face­book page the fol­low­ing:] This is an arced wire (series vs. par­al­lel) in an elec­tri­cal wiring and this fault leads to struc­ture igni­tions. [It is] a very use­ful demon­stra­tion in arson inves­ti­ga­tion [if it can be deter­mined when in the chronol­ogy of the fire it happened].

[BLOGGER’S NOTE: For more infor­ma­tion about it, I refer you to the fol­low­ing arti­cle which pro­vides a fair and good sum­mary by Dr. Vyte­nis Babrauskas, PhD “Fires due to Elec­tric Arc­ing: Can ‘Cause’ Beads Be Dis­tin­guished from ‘Vic­tim’ Beads by Phys­i­cal or Chem­i­cal Test­ing?”]

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Foren­sic Sci­ence Geek of the Week:

Week 1: Chuck Ram­say, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIn­doe, PhD

Week 3: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 7: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh D, Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 16: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Nee­ley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Mid­dle­brook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jef­frey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ris­ten­batt, III

Week 35: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jef­frey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sam­mis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jef­fery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire

Week 61: William Her­ringer, Esquire

Week 62: UNCLAIMED IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 63: Gin­ger Moss

Week 64: Richard L. Hol­comb, Esquire

Week 65: John L. Buck­ley, Esquire

Week 66: Jeff Sifers, Esquire

Week 67: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 68: Dr. Bar­bara Von­der­haar, PhD.

Week 69: Chris­tine Funk, Esquire

Week 70: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 71: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 72: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 73: Josh D. Lee, Esquire

Week 74: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 75: Mehul B. Anjaria and Peter Carini, Esquire

Week 76: Kim Kehe­ley Frye, Esquire

Week 77: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 78: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 79: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 8o: Justin Har­ris, Esquire

Week 81: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 82: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 83: UNCLAIMED. IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 84: Steven W. Her­nan­dez, Esquire

Week 85: Pat Arata, Esquire

Week 86: George Schiro

Week 87: Jay Tiftick­jian, Esquire

Week 88: Rocky Bab­son, Esquire