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Legal Task Group
The FSSB’s Legal Task Group is primarily comprised of at least one member from each Scientific Area Committee (SAC) and members from OSAC subcommittees to provide a legal perspective for the subcommittee. Task group members are selected based on their experience in litigating, judging, legal counseling, teaching or writing about forensic science evidence in the legal system. The group is available for consulting with the FSSB and all OSAC subcommittees on legal and legally related issues. Task group members work together to gather and submit their comments on standards, technical publications, definitions, and other OSAC and FSSB documents, with an emphasis on their legal impacts and on the presentation of forensic science results within the legal system.
Officers
Emily Prokesch, Task Group Chair (OSAC affiliate), The New York State Defender Association
Richard Gutierrez, Task Group Vice Chair (OSAC affiliate), Assistant Professor of Law at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) School of Law
Vacant, Task Group Executive Secretary
Members
Alyse Bertenthal, Wake Forest Law School (member of OSAC's Wildlife Forensic Biology Subcommittee)
Dawn Boswell, University of North Texas Health Science Center (member of OSAC's Biology SAC)
Kent Cattani, Arizona Court of Appeals (member of OSAC's Trace Evidence SAC)
Joseph Cavise, Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender (member of OSAC's Friction Ridge Subcommittee)
John Ellis, Law Offices of John C. Ellis, Jr., INC. (member of OSAC's Digital/Multimedia SAC)
Lynn Garcia, Texas Forensic Science Commission (FSSB Liaison to Legal Task Group)
Laurie Krepos, Office of the State Public Defender, State of Colorado (member of OSAC's Medicine SAC)
Nicholas Klingerman, Arizona Attorney General's Office (member of OSAC's Forensic Anthropology Subcommittee)
Julia Leighton, Self-employed (member of OSAC's Dogs & Sensors Subcommittee)
Kate Philpott, VCU and Self-employed (member of OSAC's Human Forensic Biology Subcommittee)
Ronald Reinstein, Arizona Supreme Court (member of OSAC's Scene SAC)
J. Michael Ryan, Superior Court for the District of Columbia (member of OSAC's Footwear & Tire Subcommittee)
Raymond Valerio, Queens District Attorney's Office (member of OSAC's Pattern/Impression SAC)