Monthly Archives: April 2025

Forensics: The Wild West of digital forensics expertise challenges. Who is in charge?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2025/04/27/digital-forensics-why-licensing-would-make-expertise-worse/

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Forensics: Junk bitemark expert’s reign of terror leads to 9th case overturned. DA still demands execution.

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Forensics: Junk bitemark expert’s reign of terror leads to 9th case overturned. DA still demands execution.

Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform, death penalty, Forensic science misconduct, junk forensic science | Leave a comment

Forensics: Effects of tRumps tariffs on customized crime lab maker.

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Forensics: Roman cause of death in England.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/science/gladiator-human-animal-combat-remains/index.html

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Forensics: Removing reparations for the innocent by shifting responsibility to each county. Clever. That would put them into bankruptcy real fast.

https://www.fox8live.com/2025/04/23/louisiana-house-advances-bill-eliminate-wrongful-conviction–law/

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Forensics: Total meltdown of cop forensics lab in Baltimore. Cops managers reluctant to admit details stemming from lab whistleblower.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/baltimore-police-face-federal-retaliation-suit-claim-of-mishandling-26000-fingerprints

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Forensics: List of state stats for wrongful convictions. You might want to avoid the worst state: Illinois. The study should have included racial disparities.

https://99wfmk.com/michigan-wrongful-convictions-report/

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Forensics: Operation “DataBack” project wants to centralize Native DNA for missing persons investigations.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/18/forensic-dna-breaks-new-ground-for-mmip-cold-cases

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Forensics: Alaska awards $$$ for decades long false imprisonment.

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-fairbanks-four-lawsuit-settlement-096c35f8e29bdbb19529fd21244a515b

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