MS. ABRAMSON: Are we are ready to proceed? If we could have the commissioners and others in their respective seats. This is our second day of meeting. We began, as you know, at 1:00 yesterday and proceeded until adjournment time. We'll start again this morning. You all should have an agenda for this morning and materials that were distributed yesterday.

We will begin by introducing ourselves. I'm Shirley Abramson, chair.

MR. ASPLEN: Chris Asplen, executive director.

MR. CROW: James Crow, University of Wisconsin.

MS. TURMAN: Kathryn Turman, Office for Victims of Crime, Department of Justice.

MR. WEBSTER: William Webster, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

MR. FERRARA: Paul Ferrara, director of Virginia Division of Forensic Sciences.

MR. GAHN: Norman Gahn, Assistant District Attorney, Milwaukee County.

MS. BASHINSKI: Jan Bashinsky, Chief, Bureau of Forensic Services, California Department of Justice.

MR. SCHECK: Barry Scheck, Cardozo Law School.

MR. REINSTEIN: Ronald Reinstein, Superior Court of Arizona.

MR. THOMA: Jeff Thoma, Public Defender, Mendocino County, California.

MR. ADAMS: Dwight Adams, Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Laboratory.

MR. WOOLEY: Jim Wooley, Baker & Hostetler.

MR. GAINER: Terry Gainer, Assistant Chief, Metropolitan Police Department of Washington.

MR. CLARKE: George Clarke, San Diego County District Attorney's Office.

MS. ABRAMSON: With us also is Lieutenant Terry Hillard, who stepped out of the room for a moment.

Our first order of business will be some announcements and housekeeping matters. Chris?

MR. ASPLEN: For those of you folks who are experiencing difficulty with your pager and cell phones, we're having a house phone brought down outside, and there will be a number that can be called into if you need it. We'll have a specific number that will go directly to that line. Just ask Robin what that number is when they give it to us.

Secondly, for the record we do have a sign language interpreter here for anyone who may need it. When we're finished here, if we don't have any acknowledgment that someone is in need of that particular service, we'll ask her to sit down unless we're notified.

Also I have copies pursuant to a request from a number of individuals of the tentative agenda for the National Conference on Science and the Law the NIJ is sponsoring in San Diego October 11 through 14. I'll put these in the back at the NIJ table. You can also get that information and you can register on line, and the last page of the agenda is the web address for that; however, what that takes you to is the what is new section and then you click through to that particular conference on that matter.

The only other thing I would have at this point is recognizing that yesterday all the members of the working group, the crime scene investigation working group, couldn't make it. Dr. Cheryl May was not here. She was able to make it today, and as such, if you have any comments and more particularly any more praise to be doled out for the quality of the CD ROM, please let Dr. May know that also because she was real instrumental in accomplishing that particular goal of getting that out and getting it out on time.

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