Mr. Chris Coleman

Mr. Chris Coleman has a BS in forensic science and over 23 years of experience in forensic science with city and county law enforcement agencies, including fifteen years with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Crime Laboratory. He has been court in firearms examination, shooting incident reconstruction, crime scene processing, blood spatter interpretation, controlled substance analysis and latent print processing. He holds particular expertise in firearms examination, shooting reconstruction, crime scene processing and blood spatter analysis. He is a fellow of the American Board of Criminalistics and holds certifications in firearms, toolmark, distance determination and gunshot residue by the Association of Firearms and Toolmark Examiners. He has published and extensively taught various firearms-related subjects to law enforcement, medical and legal groups, including a recurring shooting incident reconstruction class with the California Criminalistics Institute. He currently serves as a senior forensic scientist for a forensics crime lab in California.