This is a 50 page UBC Law Review narrative on the inadequacies of courts to recognize junk “forensic” experts. Battling Canadian bitemarkers leave a trail of exaggerated claims and criminal case law that is blind to scientific principles.
Forensics: How a local ME agency uses the NAMUS system for its unknown persons. District Six Medical Examiner – Unidentified Persons
District Six Medical Examiner – Unidentified Persons
— Read on www.pinellascounty.org/forensics/me_unidentified.htm
Forensics: Pennsylvania wants to use NAMUS via a New missing person bill that will require national reporting
Only 11 US states mandate the use of the NIJ funded NAMUS database which combines both public access of family info requests and law enforcement missing persons reports.
NAMUS is located here:
https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) — Pennsylvania currently ranks 10th in the nation for unsolved missing person cases and a new bill sitting on Gov. Wolf’s desk could help to change that. House Bill 930, if signed into law, would require Pennsylvania State Police to submit DNA profiles of missing persons and unidentified bodies, no matter the […]
— Read on www.wtrf.com/news/pennsylvania-headlines/new-missing-person-bill-will-require-national-reporting/
Forensics: Police corruption. Watts Scandal Grows as Attorneys Prepare for More Exonerations
Cook County prosecutors are believed to be preparing to overturn the convictions of scores of individuals arrested on narcotics charges by corrupt Chicago…
— Read on www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/watts-scandal-grows-as-attorneys-prepare-for-more-exonerations/2730906/
Forensics: First Black female in Tennessee. A 74-Year-Old Black Woman Gets Exonerated After Spending 28 Years in Prison
Joyce Watkins was granted parole in 2015, but she immediately began taking steps towards clearing her name and getting her 1988 conviction overturned.
— Read on www.complex.com/life/black-woman-exoneration-prison-innocence
Forensics: Genealogy DNA. Remains, found in Lincoln, identified more than 9 years later
The case began when a Talladega County deputy and a reserve officer working at the Racetrack during race week located human remains behind an abandoned house on Allred Road.
— Read on www.wsfa.com/2022/01/14/remains-found-lincoln-identified-more-than-9-years-later/
Forensics: Satellites and geology methods. The science that is helping researchers find the ‘disappeared’ in Latin America
Researchers are using modern forensic techniques to find the bodies of victims of civil conflict in Latin America.
— Read on uk.news.yahoo.com/science-helping-researchers-disappeared-latin-112505035.html
Forensics: Police used fake DNA reports during interrogations, Virginia attorney general says
Im sure they fake other forensic “data” as a SOP.
Virginia Beach police used forged documents that linked people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess or cooperate with investigators, Virginia’s outgoing attorney general said.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-used-fake-dna-reports-interrogations-virginia-attorney-general-rcna12053
Forensics: experts weigh in on DC crime lab’s next steps
Its still politicians vs scientists at this lab in DC.
The team of forensic experts advising prosecutors about the troubled D.C. crime lab are urging against District officials’ plan to reinstate some divisions of the agency quickly.
— Read on wtop.com/dc/2022/01/forensic-experts-weigh-in-on-dc-crime-labs-next-steps/
Forensics: False/misleading forensics compose 24% of wrongfully convicted nation wide. Michiganders have lost more than 1,415 years of freedom
Deniers of these stats blame the lawyers.
Wrongful convictions have led to Michiganders spending at least 1,417 years in prison. Nationwide, exonerees have lost at least 26,289 years to prison.
— Read on www.fox2detroit.com/news/wrongfully-convicted-michiganders-have-lost-more-than-1415-years-of-freedom
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