Associates in Forensic Investigations
Legal Investigators and Expert Consultants
Personal Injury, Negligence & Death
Civil, Criminal & Probate
Equivocal Death Investigations
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Greetings Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to All!
As we prepare to welcome 2016, now is a time to reflect and celebrate with family and friends! We hope each of you finds joy in this season of Christmas and Hanukkah! Together, we want to extend our most heartfelt thanks for your friendship, your business and your confidence placed with us. We hope you celebrate with your families. Take a moment to remember, and possibly help, those that will not have the means, or those that are away from their families working to support them or perhaps in public safety, emergency services and in our military. Colorado Hits Milestone for Licensed PIs! From Andrea Orozco, PPIAC VP of Legislative Affairs "As of today we have hit a milestone in the licensing program for Colorado. There are 500 licensed PI's in the state and the numbers are still growing every day. I recall in the stakeholder meetings there was concern there may only be 100 investigators in the state and everyone was worried about what the renewal fees may be in 2016. I think the current number speaks for itself. The more licensed investigators, the lower the renewal fees for the coming year. With literally only 6months into the program these numbers are amazing!" PPIAC (www.PPIAC.org) has been Colorado's proactive leader for our profession and the protection of consumers and our profession that licensing affords.We specialize in helping other PIs and attorneys assisting families!
Contact our agency any time - we're there when you need us. www.DeathCaseReview.com - Legal Investigators and Expert Consultants in Personal Injury, Negligence & Death for Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation. IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
-- Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to All!
-- PPIAC Reports over 500 Licensed PIs in Colorado!
-- Agency News
- From our Agency Blog Archives
- Article: An Expert Consultation May Save the Day
-- Tidbits from Our Colleagues
- Passing of Chuck Wooden and J.D. Vinson
- Tracking a Killer
-- Associations and News of our Profession
- Conferences for NALI, NCISS and WAD coming up!
- Until 12/31 - Join WAD and save $25!
-- From the News
- 5th Amendment Right to Remain Silent
- Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Public's Perception of Criminal Defense
- Tracking Flights
- Government Chemist Tampered with 4,000 Cases, Locking Up Innocent Persons
- NCISS Legislative News and Alerts
-- The Quint-Essential Qualities of a Professional Investigator
-- AND MORE!
Together We're Better - Together We Make the Difference! Associates in Forensic Investigations LLC is a Rocky Mountain West Agency owned by Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI and Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI.
We provide Expert Consultations and Legal Investigations of Personal Injury, Negligence & Death in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation. We are Subject Matter Experts in Equivocal Death Investigation and Analysis, and Injury Causation.
We are based in the Rocky Mountain West and provide expert consultations nationally. Learn details at www.DeathCaseReview.com
Here is a video explaining what we do and why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsvtbSk8fg
AFI-LLC - Our agency is called upon for many reasons - from investigations to consultations - and from finding the right investigator to the right expert. We have recently added to our case examples found at http://www.DeathCaseReview.com/sample-cases.html.
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Agency News and Updates
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From our agency blog archives
www.deathcasereview.com/afi-llc-blog/requesting-military-recordsElevating Investigations Using Daubert and Frye Standards (originally posted 09/22/2014) www.deathcasereview.com/afi-llc-blog/elevating-investigations-using-daubert-and-frye-standardsImportance of Photography in Equivocal Death Investigations (originally posted 0Taking Identity Theft to a Personal Level (originally posted 07/6/2014)
www.deathcasereview.com/afi-llc-blog/taking-identity-theft-to-a-personal-level An Expert Consultation May Save the Day Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI
National Association of Legal Investigators - The Legal Investigator (Winter 2015)
Learn how building a team that includes experts who use the ACE-V analytical process of Analyze, Compare, Evaluate and Verify on all of the evidence is important to achieve a just outcome. Defense theory and strategy, legal and investigative, should adapt the ACE-V analytical process to the prosecution's evidence and theory, as well as their own.
Here is the latest issue of TLI - http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=281566#{%22issue_id%22:281566,%22page%22:0} If you are a legal investigator - working cases for civil plaintiff or criminal defense, you should seriously consider joining the National Association of Legal Investigators. NALI is a group of seriously knowledgeable investigators, great networking and conferences. You should join your state association -- and a national association that includes your areas of specialty, NALI is for us. They are also on Facebook. If you are a legal investigator - working cases for civil plaintiff or criminal defense, you should seriously consider joining the National Association of Legal Investigators.
Individual Locates, Backgrounds and Assets & Liabilities for your Civil, Criminal, Probate and Domestic Relations litigation For over 25 years our agency has provided cost-effective and accurate verified Individual Locates, Backgrounds, and Assets & Liabilities. States and availability of records vary.
Legal Investigations and Expert Consultations of Death or Serious Bodily Injury in Civil, Criminal and Probate We specialize in helping other PIs and attorneys assisting families. Contact our agency any time - we're there when you need us. www.4N6Associates.com
Global Investigators Media Group (GIMG.tv) with Facts & Forensics
GIMG.tv is taking a break for December, but our most recent show has been uploaded.
In Conversations with Karen, she joins us to talk about a few hot topics in the news...Medical Examiner Vindicated for Undetermined Manner of Death Pending Investigation; If These Men Aren't Guilty, Why Can't They Go Free; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Identity Theft Victim Resources; and Advising Clients Regarding Direct Contacts with Represented Persons. Also this month, Dean chats with renowned bloodspatter and crime scene expert, Brad Perron, LPI, CCDI, CFSI. Brad is a recognized expert in crime scenes and blood spatter, and is a faculty member and instructor with the Criminal Defense Investigator Training Council - www.CDITCtraining.com
Be sure and visit www.GIMG.tv for all of the Global Investigators Media Group hosts and shows!
DISTANCE LEARNING FOR INVESTIGATORS
AFI-LLC is developing distance learning video on demand courses for investigators, and has put together some distance learning courses from other contributors. See complete details at www.InvestigativeCourses.com
BOOKS FOR INVESTIGATORS
AFI-LLC has put together some of the best fiction and non-fiction books available from Amazon. These range from studying for certifications to best practices, and investigative fiction and non-fiction. Most of these are written by our friends and colleagues, including fellow CLIs and CCDIs. See the complete list of books at http://amazon.privateinvestigations.org
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Our Expert Forensic Affiliations
|  We believe that medicolegal investigation and consultation is a team effort. Stephen Cina MD, Harold Schueler PhD, and our agency are affiliated as experts in our respective fields offering our clients comprehensive medicolegal services.
Dr. Cina is the Chief Medical Examiner of a large metropolitan area in the upper mid-west. Dr. Schueler is the Chief Forensic Toxicologist of a large mid-Atlantic metropolitan area.
Contact our office to consult on medicolegal death and injury causation. The CVs of both Dr. Cina and Dr. Schueler are available by Contacting Us .
We are proud of our working relationship with Dr. Cina, since 2002 and Dr. Schueler since 2010.
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Tidbits from Our Profession
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First, some sad news from NALI and ICI, and also NCISS and WAD...
ICI Member and former NALI member, Chuck Wooden, passes
In October, shortly after returning from the annual Inner Circle of Investigators conference in AZ, our group learned of the passing of Chuck Wooden. Chuck missed the conference due to attending to the matters of his dad's recent death. Like so many, we were simply stunned. Dean first met Chuck in 2001 on a trip to the Spence Law Firm, where he was a legal investigator for over 25 years. Dean had just spoke to Chuck the week before his death. Chuck was a very decent, humble and all around great guy, and truly represented all that our profession is.
WAD Past President, JD Vinson, passes
(from Bob Heales, WAD Executive Director)
It is with deep sorrow that I report the passing of our dear friend, Past President J.D. Vinson, Jr. J.D. was one of the very first people I met after joining WAD at our conference in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1983. He was a one man welcoming committee. He joined WAD in 1973 at the Annual Conference in Seattle at the age of 21. He had already been attending conferences for several years with his family. His father, Joe Vinson, Sr. was WAD President at the Hawaii conference. His daughter Christine served as our President just two years ago and is our only 3rd generation Past President and 3rd female President. WAD service runs in the family.
J.D. attended every Conference and Board Meeting for decades until his illness prevented him from travel after our Board Meeting in Mexico in March 2014. He was always active on committees and a constant sponsor of our events. He was a joy to be around and his laughter will be missed. He loved his family dearly, and I know a special joy in his life was his granddaughter Madison.
We like to share the informative articles and commentary from our friends and colleagues...
Tracking a Killer
A Creighton alumnus' life is forever changed after stumbling across newspaper clippings of his grandfather's murder.
Clem Pellet is a good friend and now colleague in the PI world. A group of NALI investigators, from all over and with various backgrounds, worked independently and as a team to bring justice back to Clem's family.
https://www.creighton.edu/creightonmagazine/2015fallanewspellett
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Associations and News of Our Profession
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Professional Private investigations Association of Colorado (www.PPIAC.org) Monthly meetings are the first Wednesday of each month, usually in the Denver metro area. PPIAC will begin holding training sessions specific to the new licensing program. As noted in the opening of this newsletter, the new mandatory licensing law in Colorado became effective June 1st. Since that time, over 500 licenses have been issued! Our agency principals are licensed, bonded and insured. You can verify licensure at www.colorado.gov/dora/licensing/Lookup/LicenseLookup.aspx (PI1 - less than 4,000 hours experience; or PI2 - 4,000 or more hours experience)National Association of Legal Investigators ( www.NALI.com)
NALI is the premier association for legal investigators for civil plaintiff and criminal defense, and oversees the prestigious Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) program. Experience is required to join and all members are subject to a background check.
The current issue of NALI's official journal - The Legal Investigator - is now available online at www.nalionline.org/publications.htm NALI Annual Conference! 49th Annual Conference, April 27-30, 2016 Crowne Plaza Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia
National Council of Investigation and Security Services ( www.NCISS.org)
Updated Benefits for NCISS Members!
NCISS has just updated its benefits page for members and is looking forward to having you join us as new members. View the new extended benefits at
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs179/1102296473151/archiveNCISS is the voice of investigators and security personnel at the federal level. The primary mission of NCISS is to watch federal legislation and work with members to take appropriate action to support beneficial, or oppose harmful, legislation in the course of performing their professional services. Dean is the editor of Your Advocate (formerly The Report). Members of NCISS receive a copy of the three times yearly newsletter and is posted online at http://www.nciss.org/news-and-events/nciss-the-report.php. The current bi-monthly issue of Your eAdvocate (formerly The eReport), and all NCISS Legislative Alerts, and key benefits are posted at http://conta.cc/ZoQsTl.
NCISS 40th Annual Conference and Hit the Hill!
April 5th thru 8th, 2016
Embassy Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor & Grand Historic Venue 222 St. Paul Place Baltimore, MD 21202
World Association of Detectives ( www.WAD.net)
WAD is a global alliance of investigators and security professionals with origins dating back to 1921. WAD is the longest established and largest association of its kind in the world. JOIN NOW - SAVE $25! If you are not yet a member of the World Association of Detectives, you can save $25 by joining now. Go online to www.WAD.net to apply online and use the code GQII2015 at checkout and the discount is good through December 31, 2015 and can only be used for online applications. Feel free to use our agency as a referral. Karen is the new WAD Administrative Manager, and Dean is continuing as the Governor of the Americas (North, Central and South America). Together we work to further the mission of WAD and provide resources to clients needing assistance in these regions. The WAD magazine, Beyond Global, is available online at http://www.wad.net/newsletters-beyond-global. WAD 2016 Mid-Term Board Meeting April 17-19th 2016 Additional memberships include FALI, TALI and CALI state associations, as well as specialty specific national associations (see right side-bar).
If your association has news, please send it to us for inclusion in our newsletter.
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From the News
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Fifth Amendment Right to Remain Silent
Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Public's Perception of Criminal Defense
You see, it is not the defense attorney's [or investigator's] job to help criminals get away with breaking the law. It is not our job to keep "the bad guys" from paying the price for their actions. Our job is to make sure prosecutors do theirs.
"Justice denied a defendant is justice denied a victim." - Dean and Karen Beers
Tracking Flights
Recently a colleague sent a message to an association email list, asking about public access to private charter flight plans. Although these are not public record, the next day in the local newspaper with related story that may help.You can search by a variety of parameters that may be helpful to your case at http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights
Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases, Locking Countless Innocent Americans in Prison
MASSACHUSETTS - In a maddening scandal that is rocking the state of Massachusetts, a government crime lab chemist has been caught intentionally forging signatures and tampering with evidence in as many as 40,000 cases, destroying the lives of countless innocent Americans.
NCISS News
The best way to stay current and support the investigative and security professions is by joining NCISS. Visit the NCISS web site for a compendium of key legislation by state at
Check out the recently launched "Advocacy Hub." If you have not heard about the "Advocacy Hub," the Hub allows members to send already drafted letters to key legislators and government officials right from the web site. Currently there are two items pending. Check them out!
This service, usually reserved for members only, is temporarily complimentary from NCISS to make those aware of the strength and value of NCISS and proactive legislative awareness.
Archives of NCISS Legislative Alerts
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| The Quint-Essential Qualities of a Professional Investigator... | Skills Appropriate for the Assignment
Law firms and medical offices specialize - Professional Investigators also specialize. Their casework and continuing education should also be in your specialized areas.
Experience and Knowledge
Professional Investigators strive to maintain and further these. All professions have requirements of continuing education. The CLI program requires extensive compliance with continuing education.
Responsible and Ethical Conduct
Every component of the investigation has evidentiary considerations. Professional Investigators hold themselves to a higher standard and leaves no question as to the admissibility of their evidence. Information without ethics is not evidence.
Effective Communication
Professional Investigators maintain communication with the attorney, client, witnesses, and other key persons in the investigation. Moreover, reports are the product of an organized investigation and should reflect the work product you expect.
Keyword - 'Professional'
Honesty, Integrity & Intelligence. These define Professional Investigators and gives you the confidence that your case is in competent and skilled hands.
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In Closing...
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To our friends, colleagues and clients,
As you share the special holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah with your family and friends, please accept our thanks for making us part of your lives and being part of our success!
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We specialize in helping other PIs and attorneys assisting families. Contact our agency any time - we're there when you need us. Together We're Better - We Make the Difference!
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Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC
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Specializes in the Expert Consultations and Legal Investigations of Personal Injuries, Negligence and Death in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation.
We provide investigations and consultations of any death or injury causation case from any location with the conveniences of modern technology and assistance of our local professional friends and colleagues.
In addition, we continue to provide Individual Locates, Backgrounds and Assets & Liabilities for your Civil, Criminal, Probate and Domestic Relations litigation. Additional information at www.deathcasereview.com/general-services.html
Call us today, we're glad to help!
We are the PRIDE of Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC - Professional Reliable Investigators Defining Excellence in every assignment.
Thank You. Please contact us with any questions or for additional information on these topics and our related services.
Sincerely,
Dean A. Beers, CLI, CCDI
Karen S. Beers, BSW, CCDI
Associates in Forensic Investigations, LLC
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Professional Associations
Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado (PPIAC)
National Association of Legal Investigators (NALI)
National Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS)
World Association of Detectives (WAD) Inner Circle of Investigators (ICI) Criminal Defense Investigation Council (CDITC) National Defender Investigator Association (NDIA) Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI) Texas Association of Licensed Investigators (TALI) California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI) National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) International Association for Identification (IAI) and (RMDIAI) |
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