Degrees:
B.A., LL.B., St. John's University; LL.M., New York University
Specialties/Areas of Expertise:
Criminal law and procedure; forensic science, including pathology, fingerprinting, polygraph use, document examination
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Brief Bio:
- completed post-graduate work in criminal law at New York University, where he subsequently held a Ford Foundation Fellowship
- holds a joint appointment with the faculty of GW's Columbian School of Arts and Sciences, where he specializes in forensic science
- co-authored a leading textbook on scientific evidence
- directed or participated in scientific investigations into the Boston Strangler, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Sacco and Vanzetti robbery-murders, the Alfred Packer cannibalism cases, the assassination of Senator Huey Long, the hatchet murders of the Bordens, the CIA-LSD related death of Frank Olson, the identification of Jesse James, the death of Meriwether Lewis, and the location of the remains
- testified as an expert witness in fingerprinting, DNA analysis, and in the aborted effort to exhume the remains of John Wilkes Booth
- edits The Scientific Sleuthing Review, a journal of legal and scientific information (editor for more than 20 years)