Self Defense
Defending the Self-Defense Case NACDL 2007 http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/698c98dd101a846085256eb400500c01/f587d7d10c34fff2852572b90069bc3c?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,rape
I Know I Must Have Shot, But I Can’t Remember: Memory Impairment After Critical Incidents http://www.masschiefs.org/MPI/Shootings/No%20Recall%20of%20Weapons%20Discharge%20-%20Artwohl.doc
Inter-Limb Interaction is a phenomenon called inter-limb interaction. This is a term used to describe the involuntary contraction of an individual's hand and finger muscles under stressful conditions. http://www.danzanryu.com/interlimb.html
The Judicious Use of Force: You can use these police studies to show why when your client fired off 14 shots it really wasn’t his fault http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Aveni/Force&Perception.htm
Perceptual and Memory Distortion During Officer-Involved Shootings, FBI L. Enforcement Bultn. 18, 18 (Oct. 2002) http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fbi/percep_distort.pdf
Lowering Pursuit Induced Adrenaline Overloads: The Key To Increasing Officer Safety And Reducing Overreactions http://www.policedriving.com/article30.htm
Stress Reactions Related to Lethal Force Encounters http://www.mh3tacticalheadset.com/pages/tpoae.html
When battered women use violence: husband-abuse or self-defense? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3154140&dopt=Citation
Serial Killers and the Like
Kressler Site He left the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit seven years ago after thirty years of investigative experience. http://www.robertkressler.com/
Mayhem Unbelievable! Great sound effects, bullets, etc. http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/archives.html
Modus Operandi http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/
World Wide Serial Killer Page http://www.allserialkillers.com/
Sexual Assault [See Child Abuse]
Boston Police Sexual Assault Unit http://www.cityofboston.gov/police/divisions/sau_home.asp and its FAQ [very interesting]
Condom Trace Evidence: A New Factor in Sexual Assault Investigations By Blackledge, M.S. [This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, May 1996.] http://www.crimeandclues.com/condoms.htm
Rape Penalties from Norfolk DA http://www.mass.gov/da/norfolk/sexualassault.html#4
Saliva Semen http://www.dnatesting.biz/Semen_Sperm_ID/semen_sperm_id.html
SANE Protocols Useful in preparing cross and discovery requests http://www.sane-sart.com/ or http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ovw/206554.pdf
SANE Protocols Massachusetts http://www.mass.gov/dph/fch/sane/index.htm and http://www.mass.gov/dph/fch/sane/2003_sane_protocol.pdf
Sexual Assault Evidence: National Assessment and Guidebook Author(s): R. E. Gaensslen Ph.D. ; Henry C. Lee Ph.D. NCJRS Publication http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/191837.pdf
Spermatozoa Capture During the Differential Extraction Process for STR Typing of Sexual Assault Evidence NCJRS Publication http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/197532.pdf
Emergency Contraceptive Pill- ECP: Everyone is offered this option. http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sapic/medinfo.html Evidence Collection and Care of the Sexual Assault Survivor: The SANE-SART Response http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/commissioned/2forensicevidence/2forensicevidence.html
Massachusetts S.A.N.E. Designated Sites: These hospitals must use the Rape Kits and follow SANE protocols. http://www.mass.gov/dph/fch/sane/regions.htm
Serological Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations [This Article Originally Appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, October 1990.] http://www.crimeandclues.com/90oct008.htm
Sexual Assault in Massachusetts, 1988-1997: Findings from Publicly-Funded Rape Crisis Centers and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (1999) http://www.mass.gov/dph/fch/sapss/10yearreport/oversa.htm 'Sperm clock' could pinpoint time of a rape The predictable death of sperm in condoms laced with spermicide could help police pinpoint the time of a rape, and possibly even corroborate the testimony of the victim or the defendant. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7079 Statistics: Rape and Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police and Medical Attention, 1992-2000. This periodic BJS release presents information on the consequences of rape and sexual assault for female victims. The study provides the percentages of completed rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault of females that were reported to the police in 1992-2000. (NCJ 194530) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rsarp00.htm or http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus/current/cv05104.pdf
Sex Offender Registry
CPCS SORB Page http://www.mass.gov/cpcs/sorb/
Applicable Crimes: http://www.state.ma.us/sorb or http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsagencylanding&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Public+Safety+Agencies&L2=Sex+Offender+Registry+Board+(SORB)&sid=Eeops or http://www.mass.gov/cpcs/sorb/
Regulations and Forms If you are currently representing a sex offender in a SORB-related proceeding, it's important that you have a copy of the new regulations. You can call the Board at 978-740-6400 and request a copy, or they are available online at: http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eopsterminal&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Crime+Prevention+%26+Personal+Safety&L2=Sex+Offenders&sid=Eeops&b=terminalcontent&f=sorb_sorb_forms&csid=Eeops or http://www.state.ma.us/sorb/forms/SOR_Regulations.PDF
Sexually Dangerous Person: Latest News
CPCS SDP Page Make sure you start here. www.state.ma.us/cpcs/mhp/mhpSDP.html or http://www.mass.gov/cpcs/mhp/SDPcontents.html#sdpcontents
Dictionary Of Sexology Compiled by G. F. Pranzarone, Ph.D. Recommended as a must read for SDP cases http://pauk.ffzg.hr/socio/astulhof/Dictionary%20of%20Sexology.htm
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Massachusetts Department of Public Health Fact Sheets Everything you don’t need to know about STD’s. This site has current information re: sexually transmitted diseases with fact sheets about symptoms. They are also very helpful on the phone and potential expert witnesses. http://www.state.ma.us/dph/dphhome.htm or http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/bcdc.htm
Sexually Transmitted Disease and Child Abuse DOJ Portable Guide http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/stdandab.pdf Tutorials and Photos This electronic resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, and laboratory exercises that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions. A web browser equivalent to Netscape 4 is recommended to access this resource. http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html#menu
Shelters/Substance Abuse/Mental Health
Alcohol http://www.sossobriety.org/
Homeless Shelters Nationwide http://www.sboard.org/SHELTERS/MA.HTM Might come in handy for looking for witnesses.
Massachusetts Battered Women Shelters Lists addresses and phone numbers http://www.mahomeless.org/shelter/domshelter.html or http://www.sboard.org/SHELTERS/MA.HTM Massachusetts Domestic Violence Shelters Lists addresses and phone numbers http://www.divorcesource.com/shelters/massachusetts.shtml
Massachusetts drug rehab centers and drug treatment programs. The following centers are all located in the state of Massachusetts.http://www.treatment-centers.net/rehab-centers/MASSACHUSETTS Mental health facilities state by state: Here is a site that can help you find the addresses for the nearest 10 or so substance-abuse programs—whether they are just blocks or tens of miles away http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/facilitylocatordoc.htm or http://dasis3.samhsa.gov/
Substance Abuse Network in Mass. You can use this directory to find substance abuse treatment services. Go to "Find Services Near You." http://www.helpline-online.com/
Substance Abuse Services You can customize your search statewide http://db.state.ma.us/dph/bsas/search.asp Substance Abuse Directory for Massachusetts http://www.state.ma.us/dph/bsas/pubs.htm#directory or http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Departments+and+Divisions&L3=Department+of+Public+Health&L4=Programs+and+Services+K+-+S&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dph_substance_abuse_g_about&csid=Eeohhs2
Trace Evidence Hair/Fiber/Blood [See Crime Scene Investigations]
FBI Handbook of Forensic Services The purpose of the Handbook of Forensic Services is to provide guidance and procedures for safe and efficient methods of collecting, preserving, packaging, and shipping evidence and to describe the forensic examinations performed by the FBI's Laboratory Division and Investigative Technology Division. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro.htm
Animal Hair Atlas: http://www.rjlg.com/services/criminalforensics/animinalhairatlas.php
Blood: Collection and Preservation of Blood Evidence from Crime Scenes http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/blood.html
Blood: Luminol Good discussion of testimony regarding luminol hits after confirmatory testing could not establish that the "hit" was in fact blood. The opinion is posted in PDF format on this website. http://www.state.ok.us/~oids/coca/CriderBH.pdf
Blood: How luminol works http://science.howstuffworks.com/luminol.htm
Blood: Luminol Photo b http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgdtgd/140282001
Fiber Examination Guidelines adopted by the FBI. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/jan2000/swgmat.htm and http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro8.htm#hairs
Glass Hair Trace Evidence FBI guidelines for examining 1999. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro8.htm#glass
Paint Analysis and Comparison Guidelines adopted by the FBI. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro11.htm#paints
Soil examination guidelines for the FBI. March 2001. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro14.htm#soil
SWGMAT is the FBI - supported Scientific Working Group for Trace Evidence. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/jan2000/swgmat.htm
Translators
Babel Fish Translator http://world.altavista.com Your Dictionary Searches in 260 languages/100 specialties http://yourdictionary.com
Free translators on line: http://www.worldlingo.com/wl/mstranslate/UP26384/T1/P2/l/ or http://itranslator.bowneglobal.com/
Tutorials
Blood Spatter Slide Show Tutorial http://nfstc.org/links/animations/images/blood%20spatters.swf and http://bloodspatter.com/BPATutorial.htm or http://www.brazoria-county.com/sheriff/id/blood/bloodspatter_general.htm
Computer Email multimedia tutorial http://nfstc.org/links/animations/images/rev_emailv3.swf
Crime Lab Tutorial Everything you would want to know about crime lab examinations of bullets and weapons. Plus surgical pathology photos http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html This takes a moment to load.
Crime Lab Walk Through This has photos of various types of forensic techniques supported by experts and learned treatises http://www.courttv.com/forensics/lab/
Crime statistics tutorial. See: A Bare Bones Guide on how to find stats on crime. Useful for voir dire http://www.fastennetwork.org/Display.asp?Page=crimestats or http://www.crime.org/tutorial.html
Dexter Showtime’s great show about a forensic criminalist who is a serial killer This is a great video series about blood spatter http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/popup.do?content=blood_spatter
DNA Testing: An Introduction for Non-Scientists - An illustrated explanation by Donald E. Riley, Ph.D. This primer on DNA evidence is designed to help people who are new to the area get up to speed quickly on the technology and terminology involved in forensic DNA testing. http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/riley/riley.html DNA Basics for Forensic Analysts course The second lesson addresses the historical use and disadvantages of restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP), the method and sequence of steps in which DNA profiles are developed, and the concept of short tandem repeats (STR) testing and its advantages over earlier methods. http://evidence.dna.gov/ DNA NFSTC Multimedia Slide Show Tutorial http://nfstc.org/links/animations/images/DNAintro.swf
Drug Abuse Pathology with slides of what drugs and alcohol do to the different parts of the body. http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/DRUG/DRUG.html
False Confessions Library NLADA Tutorial, Motions and instructions plus research. Slow to load but worth it. http://www.nlada.org/Defender/forensics/for_lib/Index/Confessions#Confessions
Firearm Tutorial from what parts of gun and ammo look like to patterns of tissue injury to GSR http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html
Forensic Evidence A Beginner's Primer on the Investigation of Forensic Evidence. This is an excellent article re: what you should do when you have a forensic issue, including discovery checklists. http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/kruglick/kruglick.html
GC/MS Analysis by Frederic Douglas: A short primer for lawyers on gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. http://www.scientific.org/tutorials/articles/gcms.html
GC/MS walk through with movies! http://www.shsu.edu/~chemistry/primers/gcms.html
Crime Lab Tutorial Everything you would want to know about crime lab examinations of bullets and weapons. Plus surgical pathology photos http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html This takes a moment to load.
Laboratory Orientation and Testing of Body Fluids and Tissues for Forensic Analysts The second lesson is an overview of historical and contemporary techniques used to characterize body tissues. Some techniques are still used in the examination of body fluids, while knowledge of others, such as ABO and multi-enzyme systems, is of value if old cases are opened for review. http://forensicbiology.dna.gov// Tutorials of the following: Shaken baby syndrome, retinal hemorrhages; Strangulation: Mechanical asphyxia with conjunctival petechiae; Head Injuries: Skull fracture, base, orbital plate; Skull fractures, cranial vault; .Scalp contusions; Defensive Wounds: Mechanism of defense wounds; Defense wound on forearm; Defense wounds on hand; Mechanism of defense wounds; Defense wound on forearm; Defense wounds on hand; Gunshot Wounds: Contact range gunshot wound; Contact range gunshot wound; Contact range gunshot wound; Contact range gunshot wound; Range of fire, gunshot to skull, diagram; Skull, contact range gunshot wound; Gunshot entrance wound with GSR, microsopic ; Intermediate range gunshot wound; Entrance and Exit wounds. Entrance-exit wound in close proximity from low angle of bullet entrance, gross Exit gunshot wound. http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/TUTORIAL.html#1 This takes a moment to load.
Virtual OZ Welcome to Virtual Oz! Hit the START button to get going. This is a pretty realistic vision of a maximum security facility. http://www.hbo.com/oz/#
Weather
Historical Weather Conditions So you want to know what the weather was like on some past day. Well, this page is going to show you how to get the data you need. http://www.weathermatrix.net/past/ or http://www.weatherpages.com/wxhistory.html
National Climate Data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
Sunrise/sunset times on the website of the U.S. Naval Observatory, in case anyone is interested, at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php
Time and Date http://www.timeanddate.com/
Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com/
Witness Locating: Military
Home Page for locating person in all branches http://www.usmilitary.about.com/cs/locatorservices/
How to Locate Military People http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/locatorservices/a/millocate.htm
Locating Military People Procedures http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/l/bllocate.htm
Witness Locating: Telephone Numbers
Area Code Lookup http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html
Google www.google.com Type a phone number into Google, it will often disclose the name of the phone subscriber, address and even a link to a yahoo map. You need to write the number in this form 617-482-6212.
Langenberg A sometimes-useful link for phone numbers, reverse directories, emails and such: www.langenberg.com Reverse Directory http://www.555-1212.com/ This contains a reverse phone number directory in addition to trying to locate a witness http://www.whitepages.com/ or www.reversephonedirectory.com Reverse Directory http://www.anywho.c