MassBay Community College Auditorium50 Oakland Street

Wellesley Hills, MA

DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II November 10-12

November 10, 2011Onsite Registration: 10AM*Online viewing available

Key Note Address: Tackling the Problemsof Forensic ScienceDr. Bruce Budowle: 11AM - 12PM

Lunch Atrium: 12PM - 1PM

Symposium 1: Crime Lab MaintenanceMr. Rich Tanton: 1PM - 3PM

Symposium 2: DNA Typing: Current and FutureDr. Bruce Budowle: 3:30PM - 5:00PM

November 11, 2011Symposium 3: Big Case Syndrome: What Must Crime Labs Avoid in High-Profile Cases such as the Casey Anthony Trial?Mr. Rich Tanton: 10:30AM - 12:00PMLunch (Atrium): 12 - PM1PM

Symposium 4: Low Copy Number in DNA Based IdentificationsDr. Bruce Budowle: 1PM - 2:30PM

Break: 2:30 - 3PM

Symposium 5: DNA from Bone IDNA-based identifications in archaeogenetics, forensic casework and mass fatality incidents involving skeletal remains: Data interpretation, genetic genealogy IDr. Daniel Vanek: 3PM - 4:30PM

November 12, 2011Symposium 6: DNA from Bone IIDNA-based identifications in archaeogenetics, forensic casework and mass fatality incidents involving skeletal remains: Data interpretation, genetic genealogy IIDr. Daniel Vanek: 10:30AM - 12PM

Lunch: 12PM - 1PM

Familial Testing Debate:7PM - 8PMQ&A: 8PM - 8:30PMView Presenter and Debater BIOs on the following pages

Conference Theme: To advance collection, chain-of-evidence and analytical methodologies in forensic DNA analysis and to debate the impact of “familial testing” on American Civil Liberties.

Conference Schedule

Symposium Presenters

Dr. Daniel Vanek

Mr. Rich Tanton

The conference will be available via live or delayed broadcast for a nominal fee. For conference and broadcast details please contact:Alyssa Zajac at azajac@massbay.edu (781) 239-2285or visit www.massbay.edu/dnaconference.aspx

Dr. Bruce Budowle

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DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II November 10-12

Familial Testing Debate:Does Familial Testing Violate American Civil Liberties?

Saturday, November 12, 20117:00 PM

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MODERATORNationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show Host

CBS Radio WBZ 1030 FM, BostonMr. Dan Rea

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ProsecutorRockne P. Harmon

Criminal Law ProfessorMarc Stanton

Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey

AttorneyJohn Grossman

AttorneyStephen B. Mercer

AttorneyJames Dilday

DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II November 10-12

Denver District Attorney Mitch MorrisseyElected District Attorney of Denver, Colorado in November 2004 took office in January 2005. Mr. Morrissey is internationally recognized for his expertise in DNA technology, applying that technology in criminal prosecutions and working to ensure that DNA science is admissible in court. Mr. Morrissey is one of the leading proponents in the United States of using Familial DNA Database Searches and has trained law enforcement officers and prosecutors throughout the United States, the Middle East and Canada in DNA technology.

Dan ReaVeteran Boston television journalist, is the Host of NightSide on WBZ NewsRadio 1030 every weeknight from 8:00 pm to midnight. In November of 2010, Dan was honored with the prestigious Yankee Quill Award by the Academy of New England Journalists and the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. This distinguished award is considered to be the highest individual honor awarded by fellow journalists in New England. NightSide focuses on a wide variety of issues, political, economic and social. Rea believes that talk radio is the best way for people to communicate their opinions and ideas on what he calls “North America’s Virtual Back Porch”. Rea encourages challenging conversations and diverse ideas combined with respect and tolerance for the opinion of others. But don’t think for a moment that NightSide is anything but provocative, always interesting and at times, passionate and emotional. Dan Rea is a native Bostonian, educated at the Boston Latin School, Boston State College and Boston University School of Law. Dan spent thirty-one years as an on-air television reporter at WBZ Radio’s sister television station, WBZ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Boston.

Professor Marc StantonProfessor and Chair of Legal Studies and Government at MassBay Community College and first joined its faculty in 1985. His scholastic expertise are in the areas of the law of search seizure, the jurisprudence of free speech, the interface of law and justice and the administrative prerogatives of the managers of criminal justice agencies. Professor Stanton has been a “presenter” at numerous “League for Innovation in Community College” conferences and was recipient of the “National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development Excellence Award”.

Presenters

DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II November 10-12

Richard L. TantonMr. Tanton received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut and MBA degree from Nova Southeastern University. Mr. Tanton’s forensic career began with his induction into the United States Army in 1968 where his military service entailed forty-two years as drug chemist for the U.S. Army Crime Lab (then in Augusta, Georgia). Since his military career Mr. Tanton has worked as a forensic chemist in the Army Crime Labs in Fort Gordon, GA and Frankfurt, Germany; the Miami-Dade Police Crime Laboratory; and served as Director of the Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office Crime Laboratory for fourteen years.

Dr. Daniel VanekUpon finishing the university studies and obtaining the RNDr. in 1990 (Rerum naturalis doctor) he spent almost 2 years at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, studying the amino acid active transport mechanisms into the yeasts. In 1992 he left the academic field and spent almost 10 years as a Head of Forensic DNA laboratory and National DNA database at the Institute of Criminalistics Prague, Ministry of Interior of Czech Republic. Dr. Vanek fully explored his forensic experience during his work (2002-2004) for the International Commission on Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he focused on the DNA typing of the bone samples from the mass graves. After his return from the Balkan back to Prague he started his own company Forensic DNA Service. His research is currently focused on DNA typing of ancient specimen like the Bronze Age burials or remains of the Premyslid family from the Prague Castle. He is also interested in genetic genealogy, especially with the connection to Y-chromosome and mtDNA typing of ancient bone samples.

Dr. Bruce Budowle Received a Ph.D. in Genetics in 1979 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. From 1979 1982, Dr. Budowle was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Working under a National Cancer Institute fellowship, he carried out research predominately on genetic risk factors for such diseases as insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, melanoma, and acute lymphocytic leukemia.In 1983, Dr. Budowle joined the research unit at the FBI Laboratory Division to carry out research, development, and validation of methods for forensic biological analyses. The positions he has held at the FBI include: research chemist, program manager for DNA research, Chief of the Forensic Science Research Unit, and the Senior Scientist for the Laboratory Division of the FBI.

Presenters

DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II November 10-12

Attorney James DildayNamed as one of “Boston’s Best Lawyers” by the Boston Globe and Corporate Counsel Magazine, Mr. Dilday is a famed and successful criminal defense attorney for both high-profile clients and the indigent. Mr. Dilday is past President of both the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. Mr. Dilday is Producer of a popular monthly public service radio show entitled “Dilday’s Defense” on {Boston} radio 101.6 FM. On this program, he provides listeners with different aspects of the criminal laws and processes while interweaving lessons on how to stay out of legal trouble. He is also founding Member and General Counsel of the New England branch of “Reaching Out to Others Together (ROOT)”, a national non-profit group seeking to stamp out gun violence in America’s inner cities.

Attorney John Grossman Currently a Fellow in MIT’s Sloan Fellow Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. Until April 2011, he served as the Undersecretary for Forensic Science and Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (“EOPSS”). In that role, he was responsible for providing strategic leadership to the State Crime Lab, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Criminal Justice Information System, the Massachusetts 911 Department, and the state’s witness protection program. Additionally, he supervised the i.t. operations of all of the secretariat’s eleven agencies. He also served the Secretary of Public Safety’s Chief of Staff for his last four months with the state. Prior to joining EOPSS, he served for 12 years in the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, leaving the office as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau after prosecuting public corruption cases and standing up the nation’s first statewide computer crime unit. Before joining the A.G.’s Office, he was a litigation associate at the New York City law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton and a law clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground, a Washington D.C. based international NGO focused on conflict transformation and the Massachusetts Court Management Advisory Board. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wifeand their three children.

Presenters

DNA and Civil Liberties Conference II November 10-12

Prosecutor Rockne P. HarmonRockne P. Harmon served thirty-three years as Senior Deputy District Attorney for Alameda County, California. At Alameda County he developed a highly successful protocol for solving old or unsolved cases using DNA typing. He was the driving force behind the California Attorney General’s decision to implement familial DNA searching in California that led to the arrest of the “Grim Sleeper” serial killer in 2010. Mr. Harmon was also one of the prosecutors in People v. O. J. Simpson.

Attorney Stephen B. MercerStephen B. Mercer is the Chief Attorney for the Forensics Division of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender and Adjunct Professor at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, where he teaches an advanced evidence course on forensic science and expert testimony.

Presenters