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Criminal & Identification — California

Expert witnesses and forensic consultants in criminal cases and identification matters, profiled in this directory, may provide criminal forensics services and consult in forensic laboratory testing procedures, breathalyzers and intoxication levels, drugs and alcohol levels, drugs in biological fluids, DNA and blood evidence, crime scenes, ballistics and guns, computer forensics, audio and video forensics, voice identification, fingerprints, firearms forensics, questioned documents and forged signatures, and related forensic matters. These criminal law California expert witnesses may also specialize in issues of premises security and premises liability, crime foreseeability, mental health and gun violence, stalking, domestic violence, criminology, police procedures and police misconduct, interviews and false statements, false confessions, jails and prisons, death in custody, private investigators and surveillance, sub rosa, and related matters in the identification of people and property.

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Bryan R. Burnett — Meixa Tech

Criminalist, crime-scene reconstruction and gunshot residue expert, Rate: $150/hr; $250/hr testimony. Cell: (619) 913-2295

Cardiff-by-The-Sea, CA

Mark Costanzo, PhD — Professor of Psychological Science

Confessions and Interrogations. Experienced in 300+ cases involving coerced/potentially false confessions. Member, LA Superior Court Expert Witness Panel. Rate: $275

Areas of Expertise: Interview & Polygraph

Tel: (949) 280-3425

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Kephart Consulting, LLC

Consultant/Expert Witness in Law Enforcement Standards and Practices, TASER policy, Corrections; Security Premises Liability/Foreseeability of Harm. Former Law Enforcement & Probation Chief, Olympics Security Administrator & Police Academy Directo

Areas of Expertise: Law Enforcement

Tel: (602) 615-7694

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Richard Salinas — Polygraph Forensics, Inc

Polygraph (Bilingual) expert, experienced conducting polygraph examinations on murder, rape, robbery, child molestation suspects, as well as corporate, civil matters. Member, LA Superior Court Expert Witness Panel. Rate: $350 per exam, $100/hr testimony

Areas of Expertise: Interview & Polygraph

Tel: (323) 445-1584

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Dana Orent —Criminal Investigator Orent Investigations

Retired Gang Detective, Los Angeles area gangs. Testified in 100+ cases for prosecution. Member LA Superior Court Expert Witness Panel. Rate: $125/hr. Gang case investigation, analysis, consultation and trial preparation, claims of Actual Innocence

Santa Clarita, CA

Areas of Expertise: Criminology

Tel: (661) 255-0056

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Glenn A. Marin, Consultant

Public Safety Systems Expert (EMS, fire, police): computer aided dispatch, records management, emergency dispatch; practices/operations, staffing, facility requirements; jail systems; inmate housing analysis. Retired Police Lieutenant (45 yr experience).

Peggy L. Fiderio

Forensic Fingerprint Expert, including latent prints. 32 years experience (LAPD, retired) Certified in various forms of identification techniques and procedures. Rate: $125 per hr. consultation, $350 per half day testimony, $500 per full day testimony.

Valley Village, CA

Areas of Expertise: Fingerprints

Tel: (818) 505-9491

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Manuel V. Montilla

Document Examination expert, including analysis of additions and deletions to documents. Rate: $100 per hr.

Areas of Expertise: Questioned Documents

Tel: (626) 912-1231

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Michael P. Gervais — Silent Warrior Investigations®

Licensed and insured private investigation, military and law enforcement trained, specializes in surveillance, criminal investigations, civil investigations, executive/corporate/personal threat assessments, and cheating spouse investigations.

Areas of Expertise: Private Investigators

Tel: 1(714) 579-7797

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

Steve C. Kaufer, CPP

Board-Certified security expert, 40+ years’ experience, expertise in school security (K-12), workplace violence, healthcare security, alarm systems and central station monitoring, security guard operations, music and entertainment event security.

Palm Springs, CA

Areas of Expertise: Alarms

Tel: (760) 322-9097

Limited public information. For more, contact us.

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Oct 26 — Two federal courts examining very similar facts — experts using AI to help prepare their reports — have reached different conclusions about what has to be turned over. Unsettled law leaves the expert’s AI workflow dependent on which court is asking.

Failing to Examine Plaintiff and His Records Gets Medical Expert Tossed

Aug 25 — Failing to examine a plaintiff, failing to review all of the plaintiff’s medical records, and citing "facially irrelevant" medical literature will can — unsurprisingly — get a medical expert witness tossed, as in this case.

Expert Witness Testifying About ‘Mortal Sin’ Leads to Call for Mistrial

Aug 26 — Massachusetts bars the use of religious beliefs from being used to attack or support the credibility of a witness, but that did not stop forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a prosecution rebuttal witness, from trying in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

Credentialing Expert Witnesses In Unlicensed Professions

Oct 19 — Qualifying as an expert witness can be a bit slippery in matters without clearly defined expert witness requirements, as this premises-liability case exemplifies.