About - Leonard J. Romero
• A Forensic Firearms Examiner for twenty-tree years and a Criminalist for twenty –six years in which he worked for ASCLD Accredited Laboratories in the Los Angeles Police Department and Bexar County Criminal Investigation Laboratory in San Antonio TX.
• Currently an Independent Firearms Examiner on the Los Angeles Superior Court Expert Witness Panel where attorneys have me appointed on indigent criminal defendant cases.
• Twenty-six years of Crime Scene Processing Experience in which he utilized various Scientific Methods and Techniques to collect, preserve and analyze physical evidence at crime scenes. The scenes processed include Homicide, Suicide, Sexual Assault and Officer Involved Shootings Crime Scenes.
• Assigned to the Serology Unit while with the Los Angeles Police Department were his duties were to analyze sexual assault evidence for the presence of sperm and/or semen, ABO and Polymorphic Isozyme Typing as well as evaluating evidence for DNA Analysis.
• Qualified as an expert in California Superior Court in the areas of Serology and Firearms Identification and Crime Scene Processing.
• Qualified as an expert in Firearms Identification in the State of Texas.
• Twenty-three years experience as a firearms examiner his duties included the following: bullet and cartridge case comparisons, rendering firearms safe, testing the functionality and operability of firearms, performing distance determination on various evidence items, conducting bullet path analysis at crime scenes, serial number restorations, photo documenting shooting crime scenes, Nibin entries, tracing firearms recovered through ATF’s E-Trace system, conducting type and caliber determinations on unknown bullets and determining if a weapon is an assault weapon as defined by 12276 of the California Penal Code and shooting crime scene reconstruction.
• Has been retained as a Forensic Firearms Examiner for both Plaintiff and Defendant in Civil Shooting Cases.
• Responsible for the creation and development of a Forensic Firearms Program for the Oxnard Police Department, Oxnard CA. Responsibilities were to identify fired bullets and cartridge cases back to specific firearms, render firearms safe, conduct bullet path analysis, and perform distance determination on evidence. Respond to shooting crime scenes to coordinate the collection, preservation and analysis of physical evidence. Purchase necessary equipment for the unit to conduct all the aforementioned analysis.
