The Forensic Science Geek of the Week

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The week 60 “www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Forensic Science Geek of the Week” honors goes to: Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire.

Brian Man­ches­ter (pic­tured stand­ing) is our Geek of the Week

About our winner:

Brian Man­ches­ter, Esquire is the man­ag­ing part­ner of Man­ches­ter & Asso­ciates prac­tic­ing with his father R. Bruce Man­ches­ter.  Accord­ing to their web­site:  “The Law firm of Man­ches­ter & Asso­ciates is located in Belle­fonte, PA in Cen­tral Penn­syl­va­nia.  Our cen­tral­ized loca­tion allows us to han­dle crim­i­nal defense cases through­out the State of Penn­syl­va­nia. At Man­ches­ter and Asso­ciates we under­stand when peo­ple find them­selves accused or charged with a crime, they have numer­ous ques­tions about the PA judi­cial sys­tem. We also under­stand how peo­ple can feel stressed or anx­ious and even depressed when crim­i­nal legal sit­u­a­tions occur.”  I know Brian and he is a very com­mit­ted crim­i­nal defense practitioner.

Congratulations to our Forensic Science Geek of the Week winner!

See the challenge question that our winner correctly answered.

OFFICIAL QUESTION:

1. What the heck is going on in this picture?

2. What sort of infor­ma­tion can be gathered?

Our Geek of the Week answered:

What is happening is someone is downloading information from the vehicles  electronic data recorder “EDR”.  It is also called a car’s black box.  The EDR records speed, and breaking incidents.  Not all breaking incidents are stored.  It does not store everything that goes on in the car’s history. The data storage is limited and overwrites itself after a certain period of time that varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

The software programs that are used to download this data vary from manufacturer to maufacturer.

[BLOGGER’S NOTE: Honorable mention goes to Dan Hynes, Esquire who correctly answered: “The picture is utilizing an event data recorder/ crash data retrieval. This is a system of hardware/software that can be attached to certain vehicles after an accident. The information sent to the computer can include things such as whether the seatbelt was  on, the speed of the vehicle immediately prior to impact, and whether the driver was braking.”]

The Hall of Fame for the www.TheTruthAboutForensicScience.com Forensic Science Geek of the Week:
Week 1: Chuck Ramsay, Esquire

Week 2: Rick McIndoe, PhD

Week 3: Christine Funk, Esquire

Week 4: Stephen Daniels

Week 5: Stephen Daniels

Week 6: Richard Middlebrook, Esquire

Week 7: Christine Funk, Esquire

Week 8: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 9: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 10: Kelly Case, Esquire and Michael Dye, Esquire

Week 11: Brian Manchester, Esquire

Week 12: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 13: Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 14: Josh Lee, Esquire

Week 15: Joshua Dale, Esquire and Steven W. Hernandez, Esquire

Week 16: Christine Funk, Esquire

Week 17: Joshua Dale, Esquire

Week 18: Glen Neeley, Esquire

Week 19: Amanda Bynum, Esquire

Week 20: Josh Lee, Esquire

Week 21: Glen Neeley, Esquire

Week 22:  Stephen Daniels

Week 23:  Ron Moore, B.S., J.D.

Week 24: Bobby Spinks

Week 25:  Jon Woolsey, Esquire

Week 26: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 27: Richard Middlebrook, Esquire

Week 28:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 29: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 30: C. Jeffrey Sifers, Esquire

Week 31: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 32: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 33: Andy Johnston

Week 34: Ralph R. Ristenbatt, III

Week 35: Brian Manchester, Esquire

Week 36: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 37: Jeffrey Benson

Week 38: Pam King, Esquire

Week 39: Josh Lee, Esquire

Week 40: Robert Lantz, Ph.D.

WEEK 41: UNCLAIMED, IT COULD BE YOU!

Week 42: Steven W. Hernandez, Esquire

Week 43:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 44: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 45: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 46:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 47:Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 48: Leslie M. Sammis, Esquire

Week 49: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 50: Jeffery Benson

Week 51: Mehul B. Anjaria

Week 52: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 53: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 54: Charles Sifers, Esquire and Tim Huey, Esquire

Week 55: Joshua Andor, Esquire

Week 56: Brian Manchester, Esquire

Week 57: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 58: Eric Ganci, Esquire

Week 59: Ron Moore, Esquire

Week 60: Brian Manchester, Esquire