Forensic Scenarios

Stoiloff supported the need for scientific integrity and support for forensics. She has also emphasized the need for resources to help create new forensic technologies. She explained the importance of higher education in forensics and that the media portrayal of forensics is misleading and even wrong at times. Her testimony also spoke to the need of leadership as well as funding for the forensic community. The amount is large, congress has allocated one billion just for DNA backlogs so much more would be needed to truly make the forensic discipline better in all the areas needed. Scott Burns testimony supports the DNAs evidence good track record in court. He notes that the majority of false convictions were due to non forensic factors such as false testimony, misidentification, and bad lawyering. Peter …show more content…
Springs supports the need for a more responsive and flexible system that is able to have high accuracy and quality of work. There is need for federal guidance to help process the backlogs especially of synthetic drug cases. Springs also supports the need for an Independent Office of Forensic Science within the Department of Justice. There is also support for accreditation process for all crime labs to be upheld to the accordance of ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and other standards. There also is needed for a National Research Strategy to help bring targeted research for forensics. There needs to be greater funding for research and other activities that will help forensic science as a profession. She also testifiews for the need of better education programs for forensic studies throughout undergraduate and graduate education. There is also need for national standards on medico-legal investigations. She supports a model that is similar to those in New Zealand and Australia that have national standards and leadership from the federal