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: Perjury by a Prosecution expert #AAFS2020
Not all experts tell the truth. Good read for forensic students.
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/02/daniel-j-wright-perjury-by/
Forensics: Psych tests mostly junk says NRC
Psych experts have free reign in deciding courtroom outcomes in civil and criminal cases. Only 3% get their unregulated opinions are scrutinized during trial.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/16/science/ap-us-sci-psychology-tests.html
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/16/science/ap-us-sci-psychology-tests.html
Forensics: If the UK cares about justice, it must fund forensic services properly | Angela Gallop | Opinion | The Guardian
Budget cuts in England and Wales have reduced independent oversight – and could lead to serious miscarriages of justice, says forensic scientist professor Angela Gallop
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/13/uk-justice-fund-forensic-services-budget-cuts
Forensics: More evidence of incompetent child abuse “experts” who jail innocent parents. #pseudoforensicscience
Can’t these dolts read a medical history?
https://coloradosun.com/2020/02/10/wrongly-accused-child-abuse/
Forensics: Trumps DNA is the center point in 1990’s rape accusation embedded in defamation lawsuit.
Delaying justice is a common tactic throughout his administration.
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Forensics: 1984 murder charge of crime labber now described as lab error.
Those DAs in San Diego are relentless. They’ve ignored this for decades. Crime lab guy suicided before trial. DNA never lies. Right?
Forensics: Real perps go free after false convictions
A look at how prosecutors and cops play deaf and dumb after innocent defendants are exonerated. https://thecrimereport.org/2020/02/03/prosecutorial-misconduct-getting-away-with-murder/
Forensics: A nurse practitioner and a MD. Another horror story from the bruise pattern experts.
This comes out of Milwaukee WI. Two married docs. Adopting a baby. A visit to the ER. Then the Inquisition started. Falsified records, a bitemarker-like MD who lectures about “saving the children,” inept child abuse advocates, and a reporter who did his job.
The above image is from a internet available slide series. The lecturer was a post grad at the hospital where this case originated. A recognized contributor to this was the MD who coined a term “sentinel injuries” of child abuse which is merely a substitute for “preexisting.” Here is that 2013 article. She is also mentioned in the above case.
Forensics: Despite failed field tests, UK police praise facial IDs from street cams.
Here’s a quick look at police “cart before the horse” attitudes on forensics.
https://telecoms.com/502056/london-police-push-forward-with-controversial-facial-recognition-tech/
Posted in AAFS, Civil rights, CSI, junk forensic science, police crime labs
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Forensics: Lie detector flimflam in the US 🤯
No better than guessing. Still in use by you know who.
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-polygraph-job-screening-black-mirror/
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