Gray's Forensic Fingerprint Training & Consultation, LLC.

M. Leanne Gray, CLPE, CFWE

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TRAINING FOR THE FUTURE
  • TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF FINGERPRINT & FOOTWEAR EXAMINATION

  • TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF IMPRESSION COMPARISON

  • TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF ACE-V

  • ASSISTANCE WITH QUALITY ASSURANCE MATTERS

  • TRAINING IN TAKING QUALITY KNOWN STANDARDS

  • ASSISTANCE WITH COURTROOM TESTIMONY

  • ASSISTANCE WITH CIVIL CASES
M. Leanne Gray is a Certified Latent Print Examiner and Certified Footwear Examiner through the International Association for Identification (IAI).  Gray is a forensic scientist specializing in fingerprints and footwear examinations. Gray's Forensic Fingerprint Training & Consultation, LLC. provides consultations, trainings and lectures as well as examinations in both fingerprint and footwear analysis.  In addition to Gray’s Forensic Fingerprint Training & Consultation, Gray is employed at a state-level forensic laboratory. She has worked thousands of cases during her twenty-six plus year career and been court-qualified as an expert witness in both state & federal court. Gray has been involved in the formal training & mentoring of forensic scientists in the area of latent print examination . In this capacity, she was responsible for all aspects of training, including the development and implementation of the formal training program. This included teaching the history of fingerprints, physiology of fingerprints, physical and chemical processing techniques for the development of fingerprints as well as fingerprint comparison methodology. Ms. Gray created practical exercises for the impression comparison portion of the training program & provided guidance as the trainees progressed through the practical exercises. She provided training in photography, image enhancement, AFIS as well as courtroom demeanor. Ms. Gray also acted as a reviewer and mentor as the trainees progressed through supervised casework. She has also provided training in footwear examination, including training CSI personnel.  Ms. Gray has acted as a quality assurance coordinator for both the fingerprint & the footwear section at her state agency. Ms. Gray has published articles in the Journal of Forensic Identification & Fingerprint Whorld.  She wrote the Chapter on Quality Assurance in the NIJ's Sourcebook.  Ms. Gray has taught workshops for DEA, Secret Service & at the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 IAI Educational Conferences on Documenting the ACE-V Methodology in both fingerprints and footwear.  She also taught for some state chapters of the IAI, Honolulu P.D. and at the 2012 Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists.  
  • PUBLISHED ARTICLES

  • "Explaining the 'Why" When No Prints of Value Are Found," Fingerprint Whorld, 2006.

  • "ACE TO ELIMINATION," Fingerprint Whorld Vol 31 No.120, April 2005.

  • "Testifying to the Question of 'Points'," Journal of Forensic Identification, 2005.

  • "Sticky-side Powder Versus Gentian Violet: The Search for the Superior Method for Processing the Sticky Side of Adhesive Tape," Journal of Forensic Identification, 1996.

 

  • Quality Assurance chapter, NIJ's Sourcebook

 

For a list of current workshops available or to schedule a workshop for your agency, please contact Gray's Forensic Fingerprint Training & Consultation, LLC. at:

Phone: 608-235-3671

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