William Leo, M.S., C.L.P.E.
Fingerprint Examiner
Bill has over 30 years of experience in the field of latent print identification.
He is a Board Certified Latent Print Examiner, certified by the International Association for Identification.
Bill testified at the second Federal Daubert hearing on fingerprint evidence in Anthony
Golden v. County of Los Angeles, et. al., US District Court for the Central District of California, Case #CV 97-6140 (1999)
and has consulted on two other Daubert challenges.
He provided testimony in California Courts
rebutting the testimony of Law Professor James Starrs in Orange County Superior Court, and Professor Simon Cole in Los
Angeles Superior Court.
Bill has experience in the examination and detection of falsified latent print evidence
and has testified twice to his findings during trials. He has also lectured and written technical papers on the
cases that he has investigated.
Bill is known as an expert in the area of the scientific and historical foundation
of friction ridge identification. This expertise was developed while teaching college courses on the subject for
the last twenty years.
He has appeared as an expert witness on fingerprint identification over five hundred
times in California State and Federal Courts.
Since Bill is still employed full time in law enforcement, private
consulting is very limited at this time. However, he will gladly respond to inquires and when appropriate, provide
consulting services or refer you to another properly qualified examiner.
The Fingerprint Examiner
Remember, the courtroom is an adversarial environment.
Both the prosecution and the defense have their own agenda.
Neither agenda is yours.
The fingerprint examiner is the advocate for the evidence.
Bill Leo, 1995 SCAFO Training Seminer
California Private Investigators License # 12148
Bill can be contacted at:
bill@FingerprintIdentification.net
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