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Evidentiary Comparison of Plastic Materials and Products Based Upon Fabrication Characteristics 

(Toolmarks)F.S. DeRonja and W.A. Tobin, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analysis and Identification of Polymers, July 31 to Aug. 2, 1984, FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia.

W.A. Tobin & K.L. Monson, Fire Technology, Volume 25, Number 4 (November 1989), National Fire Protection Association.

Award-winning scientific research by FEI and colleagues revealed that testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Assassinations (HSCA), that only a single shooter could be involved in the JFK assassination, was flawed.

C. Spiegelman, W.A. Tobin, William D. James, Simon J. Sheather, Stuart Wexler, D. Max Roundhill, The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 1 No. 2, 287-301 (2007); Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Winner of “2008 Statistics in Chemistry Award” from American Statistical Association with

> Winner of “2008 Statistics in Chemistry Award” from American Statistical Association

W.A. Tobin, Fire Journal, Volume 84, No. 2 (March/April 1990), National Fire Protection Association.

W.A. Tobin, Crime Laboratory Digest, Volume 21, Number 1 (January 1994), Federal Bureau of Investigation.

E. Randich, W. Duerfeldt, W. McClendon, W. Tobin, Forensic Science International, Volume 127, Issue 3 (September 2002), pp.174-191, Elsevier Science Publishing.

E. Randich, W. Duerfeldt, W. McClendon, W. Tobin, Forensic Science International, Volume 127, Issue 3 (September 2002), pp.174-191, Elsevier Science Publishing.

E. J. Imwinkelried and W. A. Tobin, Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol. 28 No. 1 (2003), pp.43-72.

Tobin, W.A., The Champion, July 2004, pp.12-22, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

S.A. Cole, W.A. Tobin, L. Burgess, H. Stern, Law, Probability & Risk, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2005), Oxford University Press.

W.A. Tobin, W.C. Thompson, The Champion, July 2006, pp. 12-21, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Chapter 8: “Evaluating and Challenging Forensic Identification Evidence”, W.A. Tobin, W.C. Thompson, reprinted with permission, pp. 137-160; The Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India (2007).

W. A. Tobin, H. D. Sheets, C. Spiegelman, Statistics and Public Policy, 4:1, 1-11 (2017), DOI: 10.1080/2330443X.2016.1270175.
FBI’s bullet lead analysis used flawed science to convict hundreds of defendants.