Ronald R. Scott, M.A., M.S.
Forensic Services:
Police Shootings ▪ Firearms ▪ Ballistics ▪ Shooting Reconstruction & Investigations ▪ Toolmarks & Comparison Microscopy ▪ Dynamics of Shooting Incidents ▪ Crime Scenes ▪ Gunshot Distance ▪ Daubert Consultation ▪ Gunshot Wounds ▪ Hunting & Firearms Safety ▪ Trajectory Analysis ▪ Gunshot Residue (GSR) Interpretation and Analysis
MR. SCOTT'S BACKGROUND
- Over 55 years of total experience with 32 years of forensic expertise.
- Since 2002, an independent forensic consultant & scientist specializing in Shooting Reconstruction, Police Shootings, Firearms, and Ballistics.
- Former Commanding Officer of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab (Firearms/Ballistics) providing forensic services to 350 cities & towns, all state agencies, military services, and Federal Agencies (except FBI); and responsibility for all Police Department shooting evaluations as a member of the State Police Shooting Review Board.
- Cases and/or testimony in all states (except HI); Canada, Haiti, Great Britain, Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, U.S. Virgin Islands, Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines.
- 25+ years as a Massachusetts State Police Officer with numerous command positions including Staff Inspector, Station Commander, Troop Shift Commander, Operations Section Commander.
- U.S. Army veteran (1963-66); Ordnance Corps as a Explosive Ordnance Technician & Small Arms Repair specialist. Crew Chief of .50 Caliber MG; participated in Operation PowerPack (1965). Graduate of the Army Ordnance School; Paratrooper School; and assigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground (MD) and the 40th Ordnance Company (Europe).
- Mr. Scott has been retained in thousands of cases for prosecutors, U.S. Attorneys General, District Attorneys, military attorneys, defendants & plaintiffs, engineers, authors, insurance companies, civic organizations, firing ranges, and private citizens.
- Member of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, International Assoc for Identification, International Assoc of Chiefs of Police, and Academy Standards Board (Consensus Board for Firearms and Toolmarks).
- Mr. Scott holds a Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Bachelor of Science Cum Laude and was enrolled in a Master of Business Administration Degree; he has completed the Bureau of ATF National Firearms Examiner Academy along with other forensic training.
Mr. Scott testifying in New Mexico Superior Court (Torres v Albuquerque Police).