Dr. Mike Bowers is a retired dentist in Ventura, CA. Dr. Bowers is a clinical associate professor at the University of Southern California. In addition, he is a licensed attorney and has assisted the Innocence Project Network in cases where forensic science has erroneously convicted innocent defendants throughout the US. His latest book is “Forensic Testimony: Science, Law and Expert Evidence” and “Forensic Dental Evd” available at Amazon.com.
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The Myth of the Daubert Reliability Test:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3136632
NH forced to drop nearly 70 drug cases involving fired detective:
http://www.unionleader.com/crime/35-of-ex-officers-cases-to-be-dropped-03212018
The Hairy Problem With Drug Testing and Chemical Analysis:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-hairy-problem-with-drug-testing/
Mass. Judge dismisses 7,000+ drug lab cases after prosecutors hid evidence of misconduct:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/05/judge-dismisses-more-than-amherst-drug-lab-cases/1cHjUMiiTChcQL31VSkxVN/story.html?event=event25&s_campaign=sm_gp&hl=en-US
Portable DNA Scanner Claims To Give Results In 90 Minutes:
http://www.khou.com/article/news/local/hpd-tests-new-dna-tech-that-gives-results-in-90-minutes/285-523935577
How DNA Transfer Framed Lukis Anderson for Murder:
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?ref=hp-3-111
What do the experts know? Calibration, precision, and the wisdom of crowds among forensic handwriting experts:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-018-1448-3
Can estimates from forensic handwriting experts be trusted in court?
https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/can-estimates-from-forensic-handwriting-experts-be-trusted-in-court-/15635428
National Institutes of Health wants 1 million to share their DNA and their health habits:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/05/01/national-institutes-health-wants-1-million-share-their-dna-and-their-health-habits-science/568121002/
Sweat pores improve fingerprint recognition tenfold, researchers say:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Sweat-pores-improve-fingerprint-recognition-tenfold-researchers-say
4 Ways the Crime Lab Can Frame You:
https://www.corbettreport.com/crimelab/
Faulty Forensics: Explained:
https://injusticetoday.com/faulty-forensics-explained-fe4d41157452
Chicago gang cops lied to judges for decades so they could steal drugs, cash and more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-chicago-cops-charged-stealing-cash-drugs-20180510-story.html
ACLU demands sanctions against Massachusetts AG for hiding lab chemist misconduct:
http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/08/sjc-ag-drug-lab
Police are using DNA testing to track down a fetus’s mother:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17340666/dna-testing-georgia-fetus-codis-abortion-genetics-investigation
Texas uses hypnosis to investigate crimes. Dallas death row inmates say it’s time to stop:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/05/14/use-hypnosis-question-two-dallas-death-row-cases
NYPD detective ‘Do-little’ forced to retire after new probe exposes more bogus witness reports;
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-detective-probed-bogus-witness-reports-forced-retire-article-1.3994141
(VIDEO) Stossel: Junk Science Locks Up Innocent People
(Article) How Junk Science Sends Innocent People to Jail:
https://reason.com/archives/2018/05/23/how-junk-science-sends-innocent-people-t
Innocent Woman Arrested Because Police Thought Her 5-Year-Old Was On Drugs, They Were Wrong:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2018/05/5-year-old_was_not_high_on_coc.html
DoD Forensic Science Lexicon:
https://publicintelligence.net/dod-forensic-science-lexicon/
How an Unproven Forensic Science Spread Through the Criminal Justice System:
https://features.propublica.org/blood-spatter/blood-spatter-criminal-justice-courts-forensic-evidence/
The Real Reason Police Use Faulty Drug Test Kits, ‘ They Take Away Your Probable Cause’.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201805301064956231-US-Sheriff-Exaggerates-Drug-Bust/
Atlanta Police Lost Years of Dashcam Footage Due to Hacker Attack:
http://www.startribune.com/atlanta-police-cyberattack-erased-dashcam-archive/484391301/
Orleans Coroner’s Office employee admitted he dealt heroin from morgue van:
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/article_c3d5459c-683c-11e8-99d5-1bcc7c776149.html
She spent 3 months in jail despite a Norfolk police video proving her innocence:
https://pilotonline.com/news/government/local/article_1c51e878-73e7-11e8-a6ad-1741625902c6.html
“Influence & Injustice: An Investigation Into The Power Of Prosecutors”
http://projects.heraldtribune.com/influence/home
Police Lineups Can Lead To Wrongful Convictions. Here’s How Some Agencies Are Trying To Fix That:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-are-changing-lineups-to-avoid-false-ids_us_5b48b768e4b09e77f133df69
Wrongful Convictions and Their Causes: An Annotated Bibliography:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3200001
Why Do We Still Use ‘Junk Science’ to Convict? Blame the Judges:
https://thecrimereport.org/2018/08/01/why-do-we-still-use-junk-science-to-convict-blame-the-judges/
Mom of Newborn Failed Drug Test After Eating a Poppy Seed Bagel:
http://time.com/5360817/poppy-seed-bagel-drug-test/
Rod Rosenstein Defends Bad Forensic Science:
https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/10/rod-rosenstein-defends-bad-forensic-scie