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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Forensics: How an anti-lie detector examiner ran afoul of the feds.
This is a long read, but is worth it. Its rather incredible that anyone who admits or “confesses” to crimes and misdeeds to a non law enforcement examiner providing prepping them to pass a lie detector test. The rub appears … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, CSI, forensic examiner error, lie detection
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Bitemark Evidence Proving to be Unreliable | National Law Journal
A bad month for the bite mark crew of the American Academy of Sciences and the NIST/DOJ National Commision on Forensic Science. http://m.nationallawjournal.com/module/alm/app/nlj.do#!/article/1751566393
Forensics: Politicos and Prosecutors run amuck protecting their interests in running US crime labs
A fully developed expose’ by William C. Thompson of the University of Irvine. He expounds the ‘sub rosa’ motivations of the DC big wigs who this year fired the managers and legal counsel of one of the first independent crime … Continue reading
AP:Mississippi death row inmate returns to trial court to argue for vacating conviction – bitemarks
Besides new DNA from post-conviction testing, the MS Special Assistant Attorney General Jason L. Davis says that “new” evidence showing bite marks are now discredited “science” should now be barred. He seemed confused about his own state’s crime lab’s DNA results … Continue reading
A USC alum and faculty who is a “Dental Detective” – The Ostrow School of Dentistry
This article starts on the school’s Trodent Summer 2015 digital magazine on page 17.
MS Supreme Court remands Howard for new litigation, again
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
In response to recent oral arguments, the MS high court just issued this 2015-08-06 order remand howard. This case has major prosecutorial bitemark ID evidence issues. New DNA…
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MS Supreme Court remands Howard for new litigation, which is not progress.
In response to recent oral arguments, the MS high court just issued this 2015-08-06 order Howard for a “new evidentiary hearing.” This case has had major prosecutorial bitemark ID junk evidence issues for decades and nearly a ten year effort to get … Continue reading
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Forensics: More judicial illiteracy about scientific principles
Somewhere there must be an appellate judge who understands something about reliability. The 7th US Circuit sure needs some help. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough
Tradition-bound U.S. system mired in scientific illiteracy, author says
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
The American legal system assumes that innocent people don’t confess to crimes they didn’t commit. It also assumes that eyewitness testimony is reliable and that jurors are impartial even though scientific research shows otherwise. Therein lies the cause of…
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Flickering Examples of Science getting into Forensics | From Science and the DNA Newsletter
Forensic labs and experts considering blind testing to remove potential context bias At the NIST “Error Management” Conference earlier this month, experts agreed that “a key problem…is that people who evaluate evidence from crime scenes have access to information about … Continue reading
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