Board of Forensic Document Examiners VP Andrew Sulner to Chair AAFS Workshop on Flawed Forensics

Feb. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- The Board of Forensic Document Examiners announced today that its Vice-President, Andrew Sulner, MSFS, JD, organized and will chair a full-day workshop on Tuesday, February 21st at the 64th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Scientific Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop, entitled “Flawed Forensics: Recognizing and Challenging Misleading Forensic Evidence and Disingenuous Expert Testimony,” has a multidisciplinary faculty of distinguished and nationally recognized experts. In addition to Mr. Sulner, presentations will be made by Peter Neufeld of the Innocence Project, criminal defense attorneys Jose Baez, Linda Kenney Baden and Marvin Schechter, forensic experts Michael Baden and David Benjamin, law school professor Michael Risinger, and state court judges Joseph Maltese (New York) and Stephanie Domitrovich (Pennsylvania). A summary of the workshop’s topics can be viewed http://bfde.org/resources/2012AdvanceProgramWorkshop20.pdf
   
About Andrew Sulner, MSFS, JD
Andrew Sulner is a board certified forensic document examiner and attorney who holds a Master of Science degree in Forensic Science and a Juris Doctorate degree from George Washington University. The Sulner name is associated with three generations of document examiners, and Andrew Sulner has over 30 years of experience in examining questioned and disputed documents on behalf of major law firms, banks, insurance companies and financial institutions, as well as federal and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies. Mr. Sulner, who is also a certified fraud examiner and former state prosecutor, has been consulted nationally and internationally as an expert in determining the authenticity of documents, and his expert testimony has been favorably cited in numerous federal and state court decisions. His state of the art forensic document laboratory is located in the heart of New York City.

Mr. Sulner is a Diplomate of the Board of Forensic Document Examiners (BFDE), a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), and a member of the Association of Forensic Document Examiners, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the National District Attorneys Association, and the New York, Florida, California and District of Columbia Bars. He currently serves as Secretary of the Jurisprudence Section of the AAFS, Vice-President of the BFDE, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Forensic Document Examination.

About the Board of Forensic Document Examiners (BFDE)
The Board of Forensic Document Examiners was established to administer a professional certification program designed to evaluate the knowledge, practical skills and abilities of forensic document examiners. Its goal is to provide a meaningful credential that the legal community can confidently rely upon when selecting a forensic document examiner.

The BFDE is the first forensic document examiner certification board to be accredited by the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board (FSAB), with the hallmark of being the only one that proctors all phases of its certification testing. Board certification is awarded to all document examiners who pass the written and performance exams that are proctored by independent officials at most of the nation’s university testing centers. The BFDE certification program is on a voluntary basis and is open to any document examiner who meets the prerequisites for testing. The BFDE requires all of its certificate holders, known as Diplomates, to adhere to a prescribed Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility.  To learn more visit http://www.bfde.org.

About the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
The American Academy of Forensic Sciences is one of the world's largest and most renowned organizations of forensic scientists, with nearly 6,000 members in 57 countries. As the world's most prestigious forensic science organization, the AAFS serves as the focal point for public information concerning the forensic science profession. To learn more visit http://www.aafs.org.

Source: Board of Forensic Document Examiners
Contact: mailto:info@bfde.org

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The Board of Forensic Document Examiners is a certification board in the field of forensic document examination. BFDE is accredited by the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board, meeting requirements of reliability and validity in its testing process.