National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence

P R O C E E D I N G S
JULY 25, 1999

Opening Remarks by
Dr. Jim Crow
Vice-Chair

DOCTOR CROW: First of all, two apologies. The first apology is for being here. As you all know, Justice Abrahamson was supposed to preside over this meeting. She just finished a very tough election and has earned a well-deserved rest. So she has gone on a vacation, and I'm replacing her.

The second point to make here is that many of us got a notice saying this meeting would start at two o'clock, and I don't doubt that some of the empty spaces around here are caused by that. Nonetheless, I don't want to wait for a whole hour doing nothing so what we will do is do nothing anyhow with the present people here.

I'm going to -- I am scheduled to make some introductory remarks, but I don't really have any to make, and I will say a little about the Technical Working Group later on.

So I think I'll just proceed immediately to call on Chris. So the floor is yours. Just do something until two o'clock.

(Laughter.)


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