ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• Jurisdiction: North Carolina

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the University of Hartford, where I first developed the course in forensic evidence in court, from which this text is developed. I am grateful to my colleague, Marc Vallen, who generously accepted my request to lend his expertise in digital forensics to the preparation of this second edition, and who later agreed to update our chapter on eyewitness identification and add a chapter on firearms and toolmarks. And I wish to thank Lawrence Lissitzyn, my husband and an attorney, who read and re-read chapters, researched Confrontation Clause issues, and was helpful in innumerable ways.

—CBL

I wish to thank, first and foremost, my darling wife Erica, who in addition to providing much needed moral support, tolerated me throughout this project, particularly as deadlines approached. Much gratitude to my children, Marc, Olivia, and Tessa, each of whom is an inspiration in their own way. Many...