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Protecting Our Profession and Clients - AFI-LLC Newsletter September 2020

Agency Information & Principals' CVs - Expert Analysis / Consultations
Current information on our primary agency website for services, forms, and CVs.
-- At Your Service - www.DeathCaseReview.com/Legal-Investigations
-- Your Investigators - www.DeathCaseReview.com/Principals-Bios
-- Dean's CV - http://dab-cv.DeathCaseReview.com
-- Karen's CV - http://ksb-cv.DeathCaseReview.com
-- References - http://references.DeathCaseReview.com

Karen provides Subject Matter Expertise on all Equivocal Deaths, and Dean has provided
expert consultations nationwide since 2010. He has been recognized by Colorado courts in
Forensic and Medicolegal Death Investigations generally in "the totality of the circumstances
of the fatal or non-fatal event and the competency of the official investigation, with respect to death investigation
protocol and standards."

Specific non-medical testimony has included as an expert in the areas of:
• Injury, wound before morphology, how wounds are created, mechanics of single edged instruments, bilateral
edged instruments, and mechanics of puncture wounds.
• Expert in criminal and forensic investigations, including death investigation and protocol standards as well as
related death investigation and injury causation; and Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.
• Patterned Injury Analysis
• Private Investigation Protocols
• Background Records and Investigations

Dean has been appointed in Colorado, Wyoming, Louisiana, Arizona and California in these areas and as an expert in
medicolegal / death investigations. In addition, Dean and Karen have provided private attorney and family consultations
in multiple states.

New Commentary: Protecting Our Profession and Clients in Colorado’s Unlicensed Environment

Due to the 07/11/2020 veto of Colorado’s governor of the bill to continue the
private investigator licensing program, and consumer protections, we are back
to an unlicensed environment. The only purpose of licensing in Colorado – of all
programs – is consumer protection. Having been in the unlicensed environment
since before staring our agency in 1987, we will adapt. Of importance is
adapting for our clients. Based on the experience of the licensing programs in
Colorado since 2012, we are adapting a commonsense approach to continuing
with these standards of practice and protocols in our policies and procedures, as
well as ethics. There is nothing new to our approach – are simply continuing on
what we have done, or expanded with, for over 30 years. We suggest your
agency make similar adaptations, and we also suggest our clients – and yours – look for these in their investigators.

No licensing in Colorado – now what?
The issuance of a license does not provide any assurance to a client of the experience and services of the investigator.
The basics have always been simple – 1) Licensed in the state or jurisdiction in which you are operating (if applicable); 2)
Have a permitted or otherwise lawful purpose; 3) Your activity must be lawful; and 4) Your activity must be ethical.

Read the full commentary at www.DeathCaseReview.com/afi-llc-blog/protecting-our-profession-and-clients-in-
colorados-unlicensed-environment and our Agency Standards of Practice at www.DeathCaseReview.com/standards.

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