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Monthly Archives: July 2015
Bad actors and negligent experts in Crim Justice still immune.
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
This follows up previous blogs about how citizens, damaged by CJ incompetence (including some lawyers) and bad acts, run afoul of legal interpretations of immunity for state employees…
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Bad actors and negligent experts in Crim Justice still immune.
This follows up previous blogs about how citizens, damaged by CJ incompetence (including some lawyers) and bad acts, run afoul of legal interpretations of immunity for state employees and their minions. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/07/30/people-wronged-by-the-criminal-justice-system-face-a-long-road-to-compensation (copyright 2015 Dental and Forensic Services LLC )
Take a look at a properly arranged MS in Forensic Science in Kansas City, MO
This program emphasizes the high technique aspects of investigation with emphasis on multi-disciplinary science. I’m suggesting that the U Tenneseee rethink their MS in Odontology. (dentistry). Excerpt: “We spend a lot of time on the methodology. There’s a lot of verification … Continue reading
Our Badly Broken Justice System – Cases in Point – Part 1
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
From time to time, I become aware of cases that are particularly good examples of the flaws, problems, shortcomings, and injustices in our so-called justice system that I have been writing about here for…
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Medical Examiner muckup deepens in Montana regarding infant deaths and SBS opinions
Good example of the SLOW and weak attempts to manage research unsupported physician opinions of infant deaths. Full article. This is analogous to a previous post asking questions about ER docs and questionable and potentially unethical child abuse investigations. A very lawyerly … Continue reading
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The reason there is no change
Originally posted on Eye of the beholder:
Forensic Pathologists trust bitemark pattern injury analysis, and want to use it at their discretion, even if its use becomes passé in identifying the perpetrator. ?The word is out that they think eradication…
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The Junk Science of Bite Marks Needs to Go Away
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
We’ve posted about bite mark junk science here before. See About Bite Mark Evidence – Forensic Odontology. Now, a leading White House science advisor has exhorted the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…
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Federal judge opinion about “experts peddling junk science to credulous judges and jurors”…..
This federal court (from the Chicago area) opinion speaks to how people exonerated of serious crimes have little legal recourse (having no state statutes and judicial case law privileges or right to sue most government “actors.”) for recompense for damages caused … Continue reading
The National Registry of Exons. When convictions go wrong, the price in human suffering can’t be ignored
Read this excerpt first….. “The registry receives four or five letters a week from prisoners who claim to be innocent. They’re heartbreaking. Most of the writers are probably guilty, but some undoubtedly are not. We tell them that we … Continue reading
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