Jame Gannalo, Stria Consulting Group Incorporated

Conducting independent examination and evaluation for a variety of firearms and shooting related cases using recognized analytical techniques. Providing expert witness courtroom testimony on an assortment of criminal and civil cases in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Recognized as an expert in firearms, firearms operability, ballistics, firearms identification, microscopy, shooting incident reconstruction and gunshot residue testing analysis.

Also conducting forensic evaluation of the circumstances surrounding shooting incident related cases. Providing scientific assessment of recovered physical evidence from shooting incidents to establish how the incident occurred. Performing forensic reconstruction analysis related to police involved shootings and unintentional discharges.

Mr. Gannalo has provided expert testimony at more than six-hundred fifty (650+) trials conducted in various federal, state and county jurisdictions in multiple states. He has been recognized as an expert witness at trials linked to firearms, firearms operability, ballistics, firearms identification, microscopy, shooting incident reconstruction, gunshot-residue analysis and muzzle-to-target distance determination examinations. Mr. Gannalo has also presented expert testimony at a number of civil trials while assisting counsel for both the plaintiff and defendants. 

Mr. Gannalo has been assigned as an independent consultant in over five hundred (500+) firearms related cases since his service retirement in 1998. He has assisted hundreds of attorneys in case analysis, trial preparation and presentation at criminal and civil trials conducted in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland, Delaware, Kansas, Vermont, Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire and North Dakota.

Mr. Gannalo has created and/or instructed a number of forensic training programs for firearms identification, shooting incident reconstruction and expert witness courtroom testimony. These programs have been used to train many hundreds of firearm examiners, investigators and police officers from law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. These training curriculums have been used to educate examiners in crime laboratories operated by the New York City Police Department, City of Philadelphia Police Department, Arkansas State Crime Laboratory and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory.