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Latent Print Examinations—Preparing for a Daubert Hearing

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This one-week course is open to crime laboratory chemists who analyze fire debris. Attendees should have a BS degree in chemistry and be assigned to a forensic laboratory. Instruction is provided on the basic principles of the physics and chemistry of fire; collection and preservation of evidence from a fire scene; the recovery, isolation, and identification of ignitable liquid residues (accelerants) from fire debris; both instrumental and non-instrumental techniques in fire debris analysis; and interpretation of analytical results and report writing.

FBI Laboratory Training Application (pdf)
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