Monthly Archives: May 2025

Forensics: “Better” DNA testing gets man released after 38 years in UK prison. 🧪

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Forensics: OK governor ignores bill expanding Missing Persons funding. Whatta jerk.

https://www.kosu.org/local-news/2025-05-14/some-oklahoma-lawmakers-push-to-override-gov-stitts-veto-of-mmip-bill

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Forensics: When fingers get wet, do they wrinkle the same every time?

https://www.forensicmag.com/3594-All-News/619405-Your-Fingerprints-are-the-Same-Even-When-Wrinkled/

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Forensics: Cops use flawed cannabis lab to get arrests.

https://businessofcannabis.com/the-hemp-trap-how-texas-cops-and-a-crime-lab-criminalize-the-legal-cannabis-industry-for-profit/

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Forensics: TX Appeals courts use wrong standards in junk science review cases. Inmate execution looms based on shaken baby myth used at trial.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-junk-science-bill-house-david-cook/

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Forensics: The daft and befuddled practices of forensic dentists. Laughable.

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Forensics: DNA spray used to mark perps who approach assault victims.

🧪 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly392d3el1o

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Forensics: Cells are crowded. A more realistic look at DNA in action: Study shows it behaves differently when crowded by molecules

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA’s environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that strand separation—the essential process a “resting” double helix undergoes before it can initiate … — Read on phys.org/news/2025-05-realistic-dna-action-differently-crowded.html

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Faulty DNA tests lead to more than 1, 000 criminal cases across Texas being reviewed

Insufficient DNA results from 3rd largestcommercial lab in US in Texas revealed to be incorrect. Used to prove guilt or innocence in a death penalty state. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5387511/faulty-dna-tests-lead-to-more-than-1-000-criminal-cases-across-texas-being-reviewed

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Forensics: Why cop forensic labs should not hide errors in their results. Its called the “human factor.”

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/research-based-practices-can-help-forensic-scientists-do-their-best-work

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