Forensic Science for Lawyers
33, Total Credit Florida State Bar Association Accredited Course
Florida Bar Course Number 3216-3
This is a new course based upon the textbook, Forensic Science, 2nd and 3rd Editions, James and Nordby, Eds, CRCPress:Boca Raton:2005. 2009 Note: this text is available to registered attendees at a 15% discount plus free shipping direct from the publisher, just use the link posted in Lecture 1
Each of the lectures will be supplemented by additional written materials as important changes and additions occur in the respective areas of science. This course has been certified by the Florida State Bar Association for CLE credits for the practicing Florida Attorney. Attorneys who complete this CLE program are eligible for 33 hours of general CLER credits. Both Parts I and II are only offered as a complete package and are available online immediately. In addition, upon completion of the course immediate registration of your CLE credits with the Florida Bar is easy; simply follow the online links in this program. NOTE: all CLE credits earned under this current CLE program must be registered with the Florida Bar on or before December 1, 2013
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Course Description
Part I consists of seven modules each of which consists in part of an extensive video lecture by Professor Bernard A. Raum, formerly Adjunct Professor of Forensic Evidence at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. The first seven lectures in this series discuss the following topics which are related to chapters in the textbook:
- Lecture 1. Daubert/Frye and related statutes and rules of evidence; crime scenes
- Lecture 2. Death Investigation
- Lecture 3. Trauma/Pathology
- Lecture 4. Forensic Anthropology
- Lecture 5. Forensic Odontology, Entomology, and Botany
- Lecture 6. Biological evidence
- Lecture 7. Forensic Toxicology
Each of these lectures will be supplemented by additional written materials as important changes and additions occur in the respective areas of science. Part II consists of nine modules each of which also has an extensive video lecture by Professor Raum which also tracks the textbook. This series of lectures are as follows:
- Lecture 8a. Questioned Documents
- Lecture 8b. Vehicle accident investigation and reconstruction
- Lecture 9a. Footwear, tire tracks, firearms, and tool marks
- Lecture 9b. Forensic laboratory
- Lecture 10a. Fingerprints
- Lecture 10b. Psychology and Psychiatry
- Lecture 11a. Trace evidence
- Lecture 11b. Arson & explosions
- Lecture 12. DNA
- Lecture 13a. General ethics part I
Both Parts I and II will be continuously available to registrants for viewing at any time, however, individual registration passwords will only be valid for 6 months from the date of registration.
Course cost: $200.00.
Faculty biography
A former prosecutor, Professor Raum received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore and his Master of Forensic Sciences degree from The George Washington University. He has previously taught in both the forensic sciences program at The George Washington University and also at the University of Baltimore, School of Law, where he created the popular course, Forensic Evidence. He was most recently an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida, where he again teaches the same course, Forensic Evidence, upon which this new online program is based. He currently is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida School of medicine and teaches an online course in evidence in the graduate certificate program at the School of Veterinarian Medicine at the University of Florida. He is a current Fellow of the Jurisprudence Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is active in the academy's programs.