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.
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.
The Court is ignoring science
— Read on www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9968
Michael Wearry , a Louisiana prisoner whose conviction and death sentence were overturned by the U.S Supreme Court in 2016 because prosecutors withheld…
— Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/federal-appeals-court-rules-that-louisiana-prosecutor-and-police-officer-who-fabricated-evidence-are-not-immune-from-civil-rights-lawsuit-by-former-death-row-prisoner
Remains found in a wooded area in South Carolina have been confirmed to belong to 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, according to police.
— Read on www.clickondetroit.com/news/national/2022/05/16/13-years-later-remains-of-brittanee-drexel-found-in-south-carolina-suspect-charged/
In a report released Monday, Senators Dawn Anderson, Yvonne Boyer and Kim Pate call for an exoneration of 12 Indigenous women, who they say have endured a pattern of discrimination, inequality and violence within the criminal justice system
— Read on www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-senators-exoneration-indigenous-women-criminal-justice-system/
A cold case dating back 37 years, has now been cracked by a stay at home mom and a civilian who works for a metro Atlanta police department.
— Read on www.fox5atlanta.com/news/1985-cold-case-cracked
How UNLV anthropologist Jennifer Byrnes is helping improve training for forensic scientists.
— Read on www.unlv.edu/news/article/science-behind-identifying-human-remains
Read about M. Chris Fabricant’s book Junk Science and the “American Criminal Justice System.” Fabricant is director of strategic litigation at the Innocence Project.
— Read on www.oxygen.com/crime-news/innocence-project-m-chris-fabricant-junk-science-qa
A family living on the property discovered the steel drum on April 19 and notified local police a short time later.
— Read on www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/recognize-this-man-nj-releases-sketch-in-2002-steel-drum-murder-cold-case/3678973/
Cold Cases sitting in filing cabinets for years waiting for authorities to find the final piece of the puzzle. Fox San Antonio’s Yami Virgin investigates new technology and a new kind of detective is using DNA and family trees to help solve cases – many thought were unsolvable. Caption: SBG San Antonio -1994 Samantha Zublionis disappeared from Bexar county. The 17-year-old’s body was found days later in Frio county.
— Read on foxsanantonio.com/news/yami-investigates/dna-solving-crime