Raymond Valerio is an assistant district attorney and director of forensic sciences at the Queens County District Attorney's Office overseeing all forensic science-based prosecutions. He is a member of the Firearms and Toolmarks Academy Standards Board, the Firearms and Toolmarks Subcommittee of the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science, and the National District Attorneys Association Forensic Science Working Group.
Firearm Forensics Has Proven Reliable in the Courtroom. And in the Lab
Despite criticism, a slate of new scientific studies show that forensic firearms analysis is a reliable scientific discipline that the criminal justice system should trust