Case of the Year Award (Award not given prior to 1999)
Considerations Case of the Year Award, since 2006:
At least one of the participants (investigator, forensic examiner, attorney, etc.) in case must be an HTCIA member. The following is a non-exhaustive list of factors that will be used to evaluate the nominees:
The case was regional, national, or International in scope;
The case established an important legal precedent;
The case involved significant expenditure of resources (manpower, funds and/or technology);
The case resolved a particularly violent offense;
The case involved a significant dollar loss;
New technology or techniques were expended to resolve the case; OR
Other objective criteria announced by the IEC.
Award Winners
1999 Crips Gang Case
2000 Sacramento High Tech Crime Task Force
Hewlett Packard
2001 The Mafia Boy Case
Exodus Communication: Michael Evans, Jill Knesek, Charles Neal, III, and W. William Swallo
FBI: Christopher Beausang, Robert Currie Joseph Ferrarer, Marc Gosselin, Kenneth McGuire, Nael Sabba Ramyar Tabastabain, Scott Wanamaker and E. Brent Watkins
Lucent Technologies: Barbara Farrington, Scott Christie, and Warren Kruse
NASA: Mark Smith
U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service: David Szperski
2002 The Aballah Case
Kings County DA's Office: Steve Kramer,
New York City Police: Jahmel Daise and Michael Fabozzi,
New York Electronic Crimes Task Force: Jerome Pickett
Secret Service: Larry Krafji
U.S Attorney Office, Southern District of NY: John Streeter,
U.S. Postal Inspection Service: Sandra Spector
2003 Operation Hamlet Case
Clovis Police, CA Police: Mike Casida, James Gentry, Matt McFadden, and John Weaver
2004 Innocent Eyes Case
Pennsylvania State Police: Robert W. Erdely
New York City Police:Richard Britton and Anthony Reyes
2005 BTK Killer Case
Wichita Kansas Police: R.R. Stone
2006 Operation Trench Coat
Marshfield Police Department: Steven Marcolini
Massachusetts State Police : Peter Cooke
Plymouth County Sheriff's Deputy:Melissa Marino
2007 Extreme Child Molestation Case
New Britain, CT Police Department: James P. Wardwell
2008 Operation Bad News
Office of the New York State Attorney General:
Bradley Bartram
James Domres
Peri Kadanoff
Michael McCartney
2009 People v. Randolph Kling
Joe Cipollini
Ventura County District Attorney's Office
Southern California High Tech Task Force
2010 Detective Eric Pahlberg
Sacramento Valley High-Tech Crimes Task Force
2011 People vs. Bulos Zumot
James Eichbaum
Jim Cook
Central Valley California Chapter
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