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Monthly Archives: March 2017
Turnaround times for rape kit testing are abysmal – Crime labs Forensics overloaded with drugs
Here’s a look at police crime labs around the US abilities to produce timely rape kit testing. One might infer that DNA testing of other crimes and the ‘war on drugs’ has sapped funding capabilities. I don’t hear the US … Continue reading
Hair and Bite Marks back in the News as “Worst Forensic Evidence”
‘Junk forensic science’ topics continue to show up in the media in conjunction with the growing numbers of overturned convictions assisted by forensic experts. See: The Registry of Exonerations. Here’s a couple of recent articles. The first talks about the … Continue reading
Prosecutors knowingly screw things up after crime lab scandal tests their ethics
Nothing is more poignant than to talk to and read about exonerees who had to put up with malingering prosecutors who live their lives as if wrongful convictions do not exist. One might consider this California prosecutor the poster child for … Continue reading
Rudin on an “Office of Forensic Science”
Rudin Votes “No” on ‘Office of Forensic Sciences.” Nora Rudin is a DNA pioneer in the US who has some very pointed comments on the issue of forensic science needing to be independent of prosecutorial and police governmental management influences. … Continue reading
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Its time for AAFS members to wake up and respond to this US #Forensic legislation
The AAFS [American Academy of Forensic Science: http://www.aafs.org%5D previously requested comments whether it should support the new legislation proposed by consortium of forensic science organizations (CFSO) creating an office of forensic science within the Department of Justice, within the Center … Continue reading
Forensics: More crime lab scandals: This time DUI results in Denver
This is from Joe who commented to this blog: Thousands of Colorado DUI convictions could be in doubt amid forgery allegations: Colorado lawyers specializing in drunken-driving cases are questioning the validity of thousands of convictions after a technician who certified … Continue reading
Forensics Wednesday: ‘we may have to police the police ourselves’ – and other stuff
Being poor keeps innocent people in jail and generally ruins lives of many who are not accused of serious crimes. Missouri’s underfunded public defender office forces the poor to languish in jail https://interc.pt/2lThu4T by @chronic_jordan. But the @JusticeDept Sessions tells LEOs … Continue reading
Univ of California Irvine Welcomes Nat’l Registry of Exonerations !!
California Innocence Project Director Justin Brooks and exoneree Brian Banks in 2012. Irvine, Calif., March 14, 2017 — The University of California, Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society is now the institutional home for the National Registry of Exonerations, … Continue reading
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Forensics: Junk arson ‘science’ leads to conviction, prison, then a coverup plea bargain
From @LilianaSegura. She spent two years on this and it’s worth the ‘long read.’ “How junk arson science convicted a mother of killing her own daughters.” How Junk Arson Science Convicted a Mother of Killing Her Own Daughters
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