Use of Forensic Science In Philippine Legal Aid ERWIN PEREZ ERFE Director, PAO Forensic Laboratory Services Certified Forensic Physician (USA), Attorney-At-Law Fellow, American College of Forensic Examiners Inst. Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Medicine Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Examiners

Forensic Laboratory inaugurated in January 2010

Forensic Laboratory

Forensic Laboratory

Forensic Laboratory

Forensic Laboratory

Forensic Laboratory

Forensic Laboratory

FUNCTIONS The PAO Forensic Laboratory was Established to Perform the following

Primary Function: To provide forensic support in litigation and case build-up to public attorneys nationwide

Secondary Function: Provide free forensic services to – Secondary Function: Provide free forensic services to – * other government agencies * human rights cases (human rights groups; extrajudicial killings) * disaster victim identification

Forensic Services : Analysis of Forensic Evidence

Analysis of Forensic Evidence (In support of a Petition to Re-Open Case before the Supreme Court 2004)

Analysis of Forensic Evidence

Time and Motion Studies

Review of Court Exhibits

Review of Autopsy

Analysis of Physical Evidence

Bullet Trajectory Studies

Bullet Trajectory Studies

Test Firing Simulation

Reconstruction of the Crime Scene

Clinical Forensic Examinations

Clinical Forensic Examinations Rape - Child - Adult Wound Analysis Scar Analysis Victims of Violence Women Children Torture Victims

Victims of Violence

Sex Determination

Wound Analysis

Scar Analysis

Post-Mortem and Autopsy Examinations

Field Post-Mortem Examination (Double Murder Case)

Autopsy (Suicide)

Autopsy (Assassination Case)

Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation and Crime Scene Reconstruction

Interpretation of Bloodstain Pattern

Forensic Odontology

Forensic Odontology

Forensic Osteology / Osteometrics

Forensic Osteology in Extra-Judicial Killings

Forensic Osteology in Disaster Victim Identification

Disaster Victim Identification

Forensic Archaeology/ Exhumations

Field Exhumations

Forensic and Evidence Photography

Forensic Photography Infrared Photography Ultraviolet Photography (injuries, rape) Evidence Macrophotography Clinical Forensic Photography

Forensic Science Education of Public Attorneys Forensic Science Lectures as part of the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education of Public Attorneys Basic Forensics Training Advance Forensics Training

Forensic Document Examination

Main Challenges of the Public Attorney’s Office Forensic Laboratory Services Expand Forensic Services Increase Penetration of Forensic Services

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