Dr. Richard Weinblatt is a proven communicator who, since 1989, has excelled at explaining Complex Law Enforcement Issues. Formerly a criminal justice professor, police academy director, and Police Chief, Dr. Weinblatt has been called on by national and local media, lawyers, police trade publication editors, and others to share his expertise on controversial policing issues.

Dr. Weinblatt is the Dean of the School of Public and Social Services and the School of Education at the 37,000 student Ivy Tech Community College based in Indianapolis, IN. He served as the Director, Institute for Public Safety at Central Ohio Technical College was professor program manager at the Criminal Justice Institute- Seminole Community College in Sanford, FL. Dr. Weinblatt's background includes auxiliary police lieutenant in New Jersey, Patrol Division Deputy Sheriff in New Mexico and Police Chief in North Carolina. He has instructor certifications for Taser, Firearms, Defensive Tactics, and Vehicle Operations among others.

Dr. Weinblatt has written extensively (Police, Law and Order, PoliceOne.com, PoliceLink.com) and has appeared many times in the media including CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, HLN, and The Washington Post.

Dr. Weinblatt offers Independent and Credible expertise and is available for both Plaintiff and Defendant. He represents Law Enforcement and Non-Law Enforcement Parties and is available nationally.

Areas of Expertise:

Police Practices and Procedures Police Training Use of Force Deadly Force Pursuits Investigations Police - Citizen Encounters Policies Civil Rights

Operations Patrol Discipline Internal Affairs Civil Rights Tasers Community Relations Search and Seizure Police Misconduct Negligent Supervision

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Major Mark Willingham, BS. MSA., provides expert witness services and litigation consultation in Dram Shop lawsuits and other matters concerning the service and consumption of alcohol including alcohol service policies, employee training, management systems, and risk assessment. Maj. Willingham policed and regulated the alcoholic beverage industry for 30 years and is a PhD candidate in Business Security focusing on responsible alcohol retailing. He is the past international president of the FBI National Academy Associates, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Certified Public Manager.

Major Willingham is a nationally recognized expert in the field of Responsible Retailing and the Service and Use of Beverage Alcohol. He is an author, lecturer, industry and government consultant, researcher, and expert witness in State and Federal Courts. His experience includes 30 years as a State Police commander responsible for law enforcement, regulation, and licensing of the alcoholic beverage industry.

Ares of Expertise:

Alcohol Related Injury or Wrongful Death:

Reasonable Standards of Care In The :
- Management and Service of Beverage Alcohol
- Prevention of Alcohol Service to and Consumption by Underage Patrons
- Prevention of Service to Habitually Addicted Persons
- Creation and Maintenance of a Safe Business Environment
- Prevention of Drug Sales and Use
- Training and Supervision of Beverage Servers

Dram Shop Liability and Over Service of Alcohol

Criminal Matters including DUI and Disorderly Intoxication

Responsible Beverage Solutions:

Business Plan Development and Review:
- License Acquisition, Facilities Location and Design, Employee Screening and Selection

Server and Service Policies and Practices
- Development and Implementation of Management and Server Alcohol Training
- Development and Implementation of Alcohol Sales, Service, and Use Policies

Risk Abatement and Liability Mitigation
- Environmental Design
- Due Diligence Review
- Secret Shopper and Compliance Reviews
- Poly-Drug Sales and Use Prevention

Drug Free Workplace Standards
- Drug Free Workplace Policies and Practices
- Drug Free Workplace Training

Business Remediation and License Sanction

Responsible Vendor Compliance

Richard Ernest is an award winning Forensic Scientist and Consultant who has over 31 years of Experience in Analytical Criminalistics and Forensic Ballistics. During his career he has worked literally thousands of forensic cases, and testified hundreds of times. Mr. Ernest is one of a very few private forensic ballistics consultants in the United States. He also owns and operates his own independent forensic firearms laboratory. He has worked cases all across the United States. His clients include law enforcement agencies, district attorney's offices, civil and criminal case lawyers, private individuals, journalists, writers, educators and students.

Mr. Ernest has performed work on such notable cases as the Atlanta Murdered and Missing Children (Georgia vs. Wayne Williams), the Branch Davidian cases from Waco, the Texas Cadets Murder (Texas vs. David Graham and Dianne Zamora), the Miami SWAT case (USA vs. Acuna, et. al. - the Richard Brown case), and the Jayson Williams case (NJ vs. Jayson Williams).

Areas of Expertise:

Firearm Examination and Testing

Bullet and Cartridge Case Examinations and Comparisons

Ammunition Evaluation and Testing

Shooting Scene Reconstructions

Shooting Accident Reconstructions

Shooting Scene Re-enactments

Distance Determinations from Gunshot Wounds and Clothing

Gunshot Residue Analysis (GSR) and GSR Consultation

Tool Mark Examinations and Comparisons

Gun Safety and Design Issues

Serial Number Restorations

Crime Scene Examinations and Consultations

Footwear Identification

Tire Track Identification

Steven Howard provides a wide range of Consulting and Expert Witness Services to the legal professional in an ample variety of Firearms, Ammunition, Knives, Blades, Explosive Devices and many other related subjects. His Primary Area of Experience is Gunsmithing and Certified Public Armorer. Mr. Howard has a college degree in Gunsmithing and is a licensed attorney in the state of Michigan. He is a former Federal Agent with the U.S. Border Patrol and a former Federal Police Officer with the Department of Defense. He has 35 years of Gunsmithing experience and is a Certified Police Armorer.

Services Include:

All Standard Firearms

Almost all Machine Guns

Silencers

Ammunition

Testing

Shooting Scene Reconstruction

Crime Scene Reconstruction

Spears

Knives

Explosive Devices

Dr. Randall Atlas AIA , CPP is a Registered Architect, NCARB certified, and he practices Criminal Justice Architecture and Environmental Security Design. Atlas is a certified protection professional (CPP) with the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), and is an appointed member of the ASIS Security Architecture and Engineering Committee. Atlas has his doctorate in criminology and a masters of architecture. Dr Atlas is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Architecture for Justice Committee.

Dr. Atlas has taught CPTED (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design) and criminal justice courses at Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Miami, Keiser University, and he is a trainer with the National Crime Prevention Institute at the University of Louisville. Dr. Atlas has been a technical Assistance consultant with the National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, and the Florida Department of Corrections and U.S. HUD Drug Elimination CPTED Program.

He has conducted ADA accessibility compliance audits for private and public sector clients, and served as an expert witness on over 200 premises liability lawsuits.

Dr. Atlas has been a speaker and trainer at security conferences from New Delhi, India to Seattle, Washington and has written over 200 articles in various publications on security, safety, and counter terrorism issues.

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Michael Lane, founder and president of M.E. Lane Services, Inc., is a Licensed Polygraph Examiner. During his 27 year tenure with the highway patrol, Mr. Lane served as lead polygraph operator administering polygraph examinations for pre-employment screening and internal affairs investigations.

Mr. Lane is a Certified Primary Instructor and Post-Conviction Sex Offender Testing Examiner through the American Polygraph Association. He is also a Certified Forensic Law Enforcement Polygraph Examiner through the American Association of Police Polygraphists.

Mr. Lane has served as President of the North Carolina Polygraph Association on three different occasions. He is also a member of the American Polygraph Association and the American Association of Police Polygraphists and Court Accepted Polygraph Examiners.

Polygraph Services Include:

• Law Enforcement, Fire Department and Government Pre-Employment Exams
• Attorney / Client Exams
• Private Business Exams
• Legal Defense Issues
• Marital or Relationship Issues
• Court Orders for Treatment Plans
• State Probation & Parole Departments
• Child Protective Services
• Mental Health Exams
• Substance Abuse and Sex Offenders
• Post Conviction Sexual Offender Testing
• EPPA Specific Business Loss Testing
• Professional Sporting Events Integrity Testing

Dr. Jon J. Nordby is a Professor and Medical Investigator, focusing on Forensic Science and Forensic Medicine. He specializes in Medico-legal Death Investigation, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Ballistics, Firearms & GSR Testing, Trace Evidence Analysis, Crime Scene Investigation & Event Reconstruction.

Services Include:

Death Investigation - Assessment of cause & manner of death and Investigation of scenes & histories of principals

Criminalistics - Trace evidence analysis, Ballistics & Firearms Examinations, and Scene investigation

Forensic Analysis - Investigation & evaluation of presented scientific evidence and Scientific Investigation & evaluation of expert testimony

Police Shootings - Administrative reviews & internal affairs investigations and Questions of Justification

Ethics - Police and Forensic Sciences

Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc., is an independent, full-service criminalistics laboratory located in the San Francisco Bay Area (www.forensica.com/fasc) that serves both prosecutorial and defense agencies as well as insurance companies and investigators. Forensic Analytical Sciences, Inc. offers forensic services worldwide in:

• Crime Scene Investigation / Reconstruction
• Blood Stain Pattern Analysis
• Firearm and Tool Marks
• Fingerprints / Impression Evidence
• Forensic Biology / DNA
• Forensic Pathology
• Toxicology
• Blood Alcohol Analysis / DUI
• Questioned Document Examination
• Trace Evidence / Gunshot Residue Analysis

Few independent laboratories have the unique combination of personnel, experience, facilities, and equipment to provide the wide range and quality of services necessary to address comprehensive forensic issues encountered in complex casework.

Daniel B. Kennedy, Ph.D., is FCA’s principal consultant and is Board Certified in Security Management. Dr. Kennedy has had extensive specialized training in various aspects of Criminal Behavior, Policing Operations, Corrections Operations, and Private Sector Security Management. He specializes in crime foreseeability issues, appropriate standards of care in the security industry, and analyses of the behavioral aspects of proximate causation.

Dr. Kennedy has testified in cases involving the appropriate standards of care for the use of deadly force, vehicle pursuits, emergency psychiatric evaluations, prisoner health care, prevention of prisoner suicide, positional asphyxia / excited delirium, and “suicide by cop.” He also evaluates numerous lawsuits concerning premises liability for negligent security in the private sector involving properties both in the U.S. and overseas.

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Gerard Petillo is an Independent Forensic Firearm and Tool Mark Consultant who provides consultation services to Prosecutors, Public Defenders, Private Attorneys, Law Enforcement Agencies, Insurance Companies, Educational Institutions and private individuals in the area of Forensic Firearm Identification and Shooting Incident Reconstruction.

Mr. Petillo is a Criminalist who has worked in the Firearm/Tool Mark Section at the State Forensic Laboratory in Meriden Connecticut. Prior to that Mr. Petillo was a Police Officer, Detective, and Sergeant with the New York City Police Department. After 23 years of service in the NYPD, he retired from the Crime Laboratory in 2005. Mr. Petillo worked in the Firearms Analysis Section and the Evidence control Section of the NYPD laboratory. He has also been a life long recreational, competition shooter, ammunition hand-loader and firearm enthusiast.

Gerard Petillo has a Bachelor Degree from the State University of New York with his major area of course work in Criminal Justice and Police Science. He has received much forensic training. The most significant forensic training comes from the New York City Police Department, Connecticut Department of Public Safety, Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners, the FBI, ATF, the New York Microscopical Society, and numerous firearm manufacturers. He has performed casework in two ASCLD/LAB accredited Crime Laboratories as well as an independent Laboratory and has been qualified as an expert in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Federal Court. Mr . Petillo has testified as an expert for both the Prosecution as well as the Defense.

He is an active Distinguished member in the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners as well as a member of the Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists, the NRA, and the New York Microscopical Society.

He has presented scientific papers relating to firearm and tool mark identification, shooting incident reconstruction as well as instruct forensic firearm workshops to students of forensic science and professionals in the criminal justice system. His primary area of interest is the examination of firearm related evidence and reconstruction of shooting incidents.

Mr Petillo was trained in and believes in the team approach. The team approach involves a number of scientists with areas of expertise in a variety of forensic disciplines working together in an attempt to understand what