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TRAINING FOR THE FUTURE
  • TRAINING IN ALL ASPECTS OF FINGERPRINT 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, CLPE, is a forensic scientist specializing in fingerprints and footwear examinations. In addition to Gray’s Forensic Fingerprint Training and Consultation, she is employed at a state-level forensic laboratory as a forensic scientist. Ms. Gray has worked thousands of cases during her twenty-plus year career and been court-qualified as an expert witness in both state and federal court. She has been involved in the formal training and mentoring of forensic scientists. In this capacity, Ms. Gray 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. She created practical exercises for the impression comparison portion of the training program and provided guidance as the trainees progressed through the practical exercises. Ms. Gray provided training in photography, image enhancement, AFIS as well as courtroom demeanor. She also acted as a reviewer and mentor as the trainees progressed through supervised casework. She has acted as a quality assurance coordinator for both the fingerprint section and the footwear section at her current agency. Ms. Gray has published articles in the Journal of Forensic Identification and Fingerprint Whorld.  Ms. Gray taught workshops for DEA, Secret Service and at the 2007 IAI Educational Conference in San Diego on Documenting the ACE-V Methodology.  She also taught at the 2008 IAI conference in Louisville and will be teaching in 2009 at the Tampa conference. 
  • 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.

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

Phone: 608-235-3671

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