Acronyms
MSPCL
What is the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory?
This type of evidence tends to be favorable to the defendant.
What is exculpatory?
Division Commander/Chief Science Officer
Who is Kristen Sullivan?
Material, regardless of form, which is received by a laboratory for the purpose of obtaining information relevant to a criminal investigation and is subject to a documented chain of custody.
What is Evidence?
The MSPCL was first accredited in this month and year.
What is March 2002?
FSD
What is the Forensic Services Division?
This form of document production is NOT the subject of a Star Trek TV series by the same name.
What is discovery?
This individual is the MSPCL LIMS Administrator.
Who is Jenny Ferreira?
A relationship that is concluded to exist between individuals and/or objects based upon examination/analysis.
What is an association?
What is Qualtrax (or Ideagen)?
NIBIN
What is the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network?
This motion is a tool that attorneys use to make sure that the police and prosecutors have turned over evidence that is favorable to the accused.
What is a Brady motion?
Safety and Security Manager
Who is Kelley King?
A sample tested in parallel with experimental samples and designed to demonstrate that a procedure/chemical is working correctly.
What is a control?
The process of obtaining objective evidence about the management system and/or individual forensic units to verify that each applicable standard is being fulfilled.
What is an audit?
CODIS
What is the Combined DNA Index System?
This type of person has specialized knowledge, skills, education, or experience in a particular field and is called upon to provide testimony in legal proceedings to assist the court with understanding complex technical or scientific issues.
Laboratory Legal Counsel
Who are Samuel Miller & Michael Varone, Jr.
Data or materials of known origin or property, which are maintained for identification, comparison, or interpretation purposes (e.g., mass spectra, motor vehicle paints, wood fragments, firearms, ammunition).
What is a Reference Collection?
This ANAB document, written specifically for forensic personnel, including management, provides a framework for describing ethical and professional responsibilities in the forensic workplace.
What are the [ANAB] Guiding Principles?
ANAB
What is the ANSI National Accreditation Board?
In this Supreme Court ruling judges are given more factors to consider beyond 'widely accepted in the relevant community' prior to allowing expert testimony about scientific knowledge into court.
What is Daubert?
[Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.]
Quality Assurance Manager
Who is Laura Bryant?
A planned process which includes a root cause analysis to eliminate the cause of a nonconformity or unintended departure from the policy or procedures and to prevent recurrence.
What is a Corrective Action?
The Office of Alcohol Testing received accreditation as a Calibration Laboratory in this year.
What is 2019?