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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Parent deportation by #45 puts children and minors into harm’s way : #Forensic Connect
Think about Exploitation, Foster Care, Runaways, and Death facing these American Children. Nothing seems to penetrate the thick skulls of Trump and his minions regarding the harsh realities to thousands of American born kids by their being left alone after … Continue reading
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Tagged exploited children, missing children, NCMEC, US mass deportation
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The culture of forensic lab fraud and incompetence continues to damage lives
Massachusetts set to dismiss up to 24,000 cases. (Drug testing) Florida has 2600 affected cases. (Fingerprints) Texas DNA lab may have up to 5,000 affected cases. Ohio crime lab tech may have 30 years of suspicious and prosecution biased casework. … Continue reading
FBI facial recognition system fails in a Congressional lookover
At Facial Recognition Databases Hearing, Congress Attacks FBI Here are a few quotes: …saying the technology fosters racial bias, leads to arrests of innocent people and trashes Americans’ privacy. More than 400 million pictures of Americans’ faces are archived in … Continue reading
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Speakers before House Judiciary on Forensic Sciences
March 28, 2017 ‘To Examine the State of Forensic Science in the United States’ Four prepared statements to be discussed in DC. There are four presenters (read the last one FIRST): Victor Weedn: has a ‘politically correct’ statement about the … Continue reading
Framing the Innocent with planted #Forensics evidence and lying cops
Not just a myth or a fictional plot line. This article starts in Cleveland OH and references other examples where people ‘of color’ with criminal histories get thrown into jail. In Cleveland, three police went there too. It’s called ‘framing’ … Continue reading
Forensic Science International – Some esoteric, others inconclusive and some suggestive.
Review Article Multifarious applications of atomic force microscopy in forensic science investigations GauravPandey, MaithriTharmavaram, DeepakRawtani, Sumit Kumar, Y. Agrawal Research Articles Toxicological investigation of forensic cases related to the designer drug 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV): Detection, quantification and studies on human metabolism … Continue reading
Objections and questions on the feds taking over total management of US forensic science standards
Date: March 14, 2017 Re: Comments Concerning Proposed Office of Forensic Science within the DOJ To: AAFS Board of Directors From the following AAFS Jurisprudence Section members: Peter Neufeld Barry Scheck Christine Funk Hon. Christopher Plourd Hon. Pam King Hon. … Continue reading
#CA12 Bill Richards sues San Bernardino as its DA controls state compensation board
Bill Richards also has years of medical neglect and medical malpractice by the California Department of Corrections and ‘Rehabilitation’ to deal with in addition to the incarceration compensation. Getting restitution from the state compensation board can still be a non-starter and only allows … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice, junk forensic science, William Richards Exoneration Case
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bad forensic science, DA Michael Ramos, wrongful convictions, Wrongful convictions costs
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Fifty years of teaching Scientific Forensics in US Law Schools – More is needed
Forensics and criminal law are subjects that are increasingly being included in mainstream legal training in the US. There are prestigious law schools that have risen to the challenges that, to some of us, seems obvious. Major changes have occurred … Continue reading
Already in use in Germany, voice recognition software ID’s a person’s ethnicity?
Need some tips about the excessive hope in digital comparisons of a person’s language dialect? This has been going on in the EU for years. Linguist’s now use it for their opinions on refugee status. Who tests them for reliability? … Continue reading
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