Latest News on Forensic Science and Criminal Law
-
Join 227 other subscribers
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Forensics: Many to blame? How America’s deadliest serial killer went undetected for more than 40 years
Samuel Little says he killed 93 people, preying on women from the margins of society. Again and again, police across the country failed to stop him. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/samuel-little-serial-killer/part-one/
Forensics: Six black girls were brutally murdered in the early ’70s. Why was this case never solved?
We might consider race of the victims. The case of the Freeway Phantom has faded into history — but not everyone has forgotten. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/six-black-girls-were-brutally-murdered-in-the-early-70s-why-was-this-case-never-solved/2018/05/21/c74d26ec-4e22-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html
Forensics: Aging of Bitemarks: A Literature Review
My first published journal article. In 1997. Co-author Curt Dailey is a mensch! Aging of Bitemarks: A Literature Review — Read on http://www.astm.org/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/JFS14209J.htm
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bitemarks, CSI, Forensic Dentistry, wrongful convictions
Tagged reforming forensic science
Leave a comment
Forensics: The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19
Trump gave us HCQ. Loser. The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19 — Read on http://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/biontech-covid-vaccine.amp.html
Posted in AAFS, Center for Disease Control, Forensic Science
Tagged BioNTech vaccine
Leave a comment
Forensics: Baseline look at junk science through the deviance and failures of bitemark believers
Marvin Zalman’s interview on his LR article describing the “cognitive biases, deviance, and dissonance” of science deniers. It shocking they are still affiliated by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences — Podcast on excitedutterance.com/listen ___ Albany Law Review
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bitemarks, Dr. Michael West, expert testimony, forensic evidence exaggeration, forensic fraud, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, Forensic science misconduct, forensic science reform, junk forensic science, wrongful convictions
Tagged national Association of Medical Examiners
Leave a comment
Forensics: Confusing statements. ‘You can trust this laboratory’: DC crime lab director responds to scrutiny of firearms unit
The director of the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences shares her thoughts on how her department handles ballistics evidence after the discovery of a botched firearms analysis. — Read on wtop.com/dc/2020/12/you-can-trust-this-laboratory-dc-crime-lab-director-responds-to-scrutiny-of-firearms-unit/
Forensics: Trump lawyer says official who defended voting machines should be shot;
…and hanged, drawn and quartered. So much for lawyerly ethics. American Bar enforcement is a joke. ABA Journal — Read on http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/trump-lawyer-says-official-who-defended-election-should-be-shot-even-as-barr-backs-up-his-conclusion
FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends 