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| Name | Chris H. Asplen |
| Address | New Britain Township
Chalfont, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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May 13, 1964
(60 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
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| Info | CHRIS ASPLEN
Hometown: New Britain Township
DOB: 5/13/1964
*Senior Deputy District Attorney, Bucks County
*Assistant United States Attorney, Washington, DC
*Director National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence
*Director DNA Unit, National District Attorney’s Association
*Awarded the US Attorney General’s Award for Contributions to Public Safety
*United States Department of Justice Representative to White House Initiative on Law Enforcement Technology
*Chief Faculty member for the President’s Initiative on DNA Training for Officers of the Court
*Member of the Board of Advisors for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Center for Modern Forensic Practice
Chris Asplen was raised in Bucks County from the age of 6 and graduated from Pennsbury High School. After attending West Chester University, where he was appointed by Governor Thornburgh to the University’s Council of Trustees, he attended the Dickinson School of Law of Penn State University. After interning in the Bucks County DA’s Office in the summer of 1988 he accepted an offer from then District Attorney Alan Rubenstein to become an Assistant District Attorney for Bucks County.
Assigned to the Sex Crimes and Child Abuse unit for the entire length of his career under Rubenstein, he was also assigned to the Grand Jury Unit and as Chief of the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition Unit. During his tenure in the DA’s Office, he was an active trial attorney trying homicide, attempted homicide, vehicular homicide, rape, robbery, corruption and other cases.
Asplen has an extensive history of working with victims and victims’ advocates. For several years, Chris has been an active faculty member for the nation’s largest victim advocacy organization, the National Center for Victims of Crime. He has also contributed his time and expertise to the Surviving Parents Network and has partnered with America’s Most Wanted’s John Walsh and victim advocate Jayann Sepich to educate law makers and police about the power of DNA evidence in fighting crime.
Asplen subsequently became the director the DNA Legal Assistance Unit for the National District Attorney’s Association. Asplen was then appointed by the Director of the US Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice to be the Executive Director of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence.
Today Asplen is one of the world's leading authorities on the use of DNA. He brings exceptional vision, discipline and experience to the challenge of running the District Attorney's office.
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