As a Firearms/Toolmarks/Shooting Reconstruction expert with over 25 years of experience in law enforcement and the forensic science field, Mr. Dean S. Molnar is a world leader in high profile extremely complex forensic firearms, toolmarks, and shooting trajectory and reconstruction cases. His firm has a team of elite forensic scientists and investigatory analysis experts for civil, criminal, and international tribunal litigation that have worldwide notoriety in the area of independent forensic case review and quality assurance analysis. These expert disciplines include Forensic Toxicology, DNA & Biology, Firearms/Toolmarks/Shooting Trajectory & Reconstruction, Latent Fingerprints, Questioned Documents, and Investigative Analysis and Trial Assistance.

Mr. Molnar specifically specializes in the critical examination, evaluation, and reconstruction of forensic firearm, toolmark, and shooting-related evidence, including firearm identification, fired bullet and cartridge-case comparisons, ammunition components, toolmark examination, firearm function testing, shooting incident reconstruction, firearms trajectory analysis, bullet-path determinations, distance determinations, crime scene reconstruction, and the interpretation of firearm-related physical evidence. His work includes comprehensive technical review of laboratory case files, microscopic comparison documentation, firearm examinations and function testing, trajectory analyses, crime scene photographs and diagrams, investigative materials, laboratory procedures, quality assurance practices, and compliance with accepted forensic and accreditation standards, including ISO/IEC 17025.

Drawing upon his nearly 2 decades of firearms and toolmark experience, extensive homicide-scene and shooting-reconstruction experience, service as a firearms unit supervisor and forensic laboratory director, and experience as an ANAB accreditation assessor, Mr. Molnar provides sophisticated forensic consultation in highly complex criminal and civil litigation involving disputed firearm and toolmark identifications, shooting reconstructions, trajectory determinations, crime scene evidence, laboratory methodology, and challenges involving the reliability, scientific support, interpretation, and limitations of forensic findings. As a result, he is able to translate highly technical firearm and shooting evidence into clear, objective, and defensible opinions for attorneys, courts, judges, and juries.

That being said, Riley, Welch, LaPorte & Associates is a leading global forensic science and investigative analysis firm having conducted high profile multi-billion-dollar cases in the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Canada, Netherlands, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, and Denmark. We are considered a top-tier firm having conducted work for foreign governments, and are recognized globally by the most prominent law firms in the world for providing the highest level of forensic examination and review services to both governmental and private entities. They take cases in all 50 states with concentrated casework in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, and are respected by top Am 100 legal firms throughout the United States and internationally.

Mr. Molnar's firm has testified as expert witnesses in numerous notable international ICSID cases (ICSID Case No ARB/06/8, ICSID Case No ARB/14/22, PCA Arbitration Case No 2020-21_The Hague). Their testimony has been presented in courts worldwide handling a wide variety of legal matters including criminal law and civil litigation. Their experience includes testifying before government officials, US Federal, Circuit, and District courts, international tribunals, arbitrations, and mediations.