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PROFILES
 Steven K. Jacobson is presently a partner in the law firm of Collins, Rafik and Jacobson, LLC. He also serves as the Forensic Specialist for the Colorado State Public Defender. For more than ten years, he has consulted locally and nationally on DNA and other forensic cases. He has worked for the Federal Public Defender, CJA panel and Alternate Defense Counsel Services. Mr. Jacobson was one of the first lawyers to gain access to the original validation work done on the STR DNA testing system now used by most labs. He has received training from both the manufacturer and defense experts relating to use of the propriety DNA software used by almost all labs. He was motion hearing and appellate counsel in People v. Michael Shreck (Nationally Noted Trial and Colorado Supreme Court Decision on the Admissibility of STR DNA Evidence). He was also counsel in People v. John Mark Karr (Investigation Relating to the Death of JonBenet Ramsey). Mr. Jacobson has been a criminal trial lawyer for over thirty years. He headed the Boulder Office of the Colorado State Public Defender for twenty-six three years. He presently serves as Chairperson of the Colorado Supreme Court Attorney Regulation Committee and has served on the Colorado Supreme Court Criminal Rules Committee for eighteen twenty years. He is a graduate of the National College of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He received his B.S. from Northwestern University and J.D. from the University of Denver.
 J. Christopher McKee is presently Counsel at the law firm of Johnson & Brennan, PLLC. He is the former Special Counsel to the Director at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), where he served as a senior advisor to the Director and all other divisions of PDS on forensic evidence issues. Mr. McKee led the agency's Forensic Practice Group, supervised staff forensic fellows and the staff forensic scientist, and served as the primary reviewer of requests for expert services in all PDS cases. In addition to his advisory and supervisory roles, Mr. McKee served as lead or special counsel in cases involving important forensic issues, as well as maintaining his own personal caseload of complex homicide cases. Mr. McKee has litigated cases involving challenges to DNA, glass composition, firearms toolmark impressions, fingerprints, alleged arson evidence, alleged sexual assault injuries and numerous forensic pathology issues. Before joining the Trial Division at the Public Defender Service in the Fall of 2000, Mr. McKee was a Staff Attorney at the DeKalb County Public Defender's Office in Decatur, Georgia, where he handled all levels of criminal cases before trial and appellate courts. Mr. McKee received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and J.D./M.T.S. at Emory University.
In 2009, Mr. McKee co-founded FDS to meet the critical needs of attorneys to better understand and challenge complex forensic evidence in their cases. Since 2009, Mr. McKee will be anhas also been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Colorado School of Law where one of his annual coursesat Boulder during the 2009-2010 academic year where one of his courses will focuses on forensic science evidence in Federal and State criminal cases. the courtroom.
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