CHAIRPERSON ABRAHAMSON: I'm going to call the Commission to order and start our session today.

The first thing I would like to do is go around the table and, again, reintroduce ourselves, and the tents are somewhere between Texas and Santa Fe, but they will be arriving soon from Kinko's.

So, Kathryn, we'll start with you.

COMMISSIONER TURMAN: Kathryn Turman. I'm Acting Director of the Office for Victims of Crime in the U.S. Department of Justice.

COMMISSIONER REINSTEIN: Ron Reinstein, Associate Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of Arizona, in Phoenix.

COMMISSIONER DAVIS: Joseph Davis, retired Medical Examiner, Professor of Pathology, University of Miami.

COMMISSIONER SMITH: Michael Smith, University of Wisconsin Law School.

COMMISSIONER GAHN: Norman Gahn, Assistant District Attorney, Sexual Assault, Milwaukee County.

COMMISSIONER ADAMS: Dwight Adams, FBI Laboratory.

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

COMMISSIONER BASHINSKI: Jan Bashinski, Chief of Bureau of Forensic Services, California Department of Justice.

COMMISSIONER SANDERS: Darrell Sanders, Chief of Police, Frankfort, Illinois, past President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

DIRECTOR ASPLEN: Chris Asplen, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, temporarily assigned as Executive Director of the Commission.

CHAIRPERSON ABRAHAMSON: Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court.

So that brings us to -- we've introduced ourselves. Sheriff Kennard, if you would introduce yourself. Sheriff?

COMMISSIONER KENNARD: I'm sorry.

CHAIRPERSON ABRAHAMSON: Give us your name, address, social security number.

COMMISSIONER KENNARD: I've been to the dermatologist and if it looks like I've been in a fight, that's why. Every year he makes me do this. Sheriff Aaron Kennard, Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office.

CHAIRPERSON ABRAHAMSON: Thank you. The first order of business is remarks by me, and I would immediately say that we've been in operations for about a year and I hope that all of you feel good about the progress we have made in a year.

The working groups have been working. The post-conviction group has brought out their product and is now working on other issues. Today we're going to hear reports from the other, several of the other working groups, and discuss their activities.

So I am very pleased. So we can either look at the glass as half empty or half full, and it depends on whether you're pouring or having the glass poured for you. But at the moment, I think it's half full and we've done a pretty good job at getting there and there's always lots to do and we'll continue to have lots to do. So far, I think, so good.

If anyone wants to offer constructive criticism, they can do it now, or hold their peace and do it later.

So with that, my remarks are really very short. I'm sorry I missed the Dallas meeting. I thought that, from the transcript, it had gone well, and a letter had been sent to the Attorney General with the recommendations from that meeting.

Chris, take it away.

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