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Forensics: Psych tests mostly junk says NRC
Psych experts have free reign in deciding courtroom outcomes in civil and criminal cases. Only 3% get their unregulated opinions are scrutinized during trial. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/16/science/ap-us-sci-psychology-tests.html https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/16/science/ap-us-sci-psychology-tests.html
Forensics: If the UK cares about justice, it must fund forensic services properly | Angela Gallop | Opinion | The Guardian
Budget cuts in England and Wales have reduced independent oversight – and could lead to serious miscarriages of justice, says forensic scientist professor Angela Gallop — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/13/uk-justice-fund-forensic-services-budget-cuts
Forensics: More evidence of incompetent child abuse “experts” who jail innocent parents. #pseudoforensicscience
Can’t these dolts read a medical history? https://coloradosun.com/2020/02/10/wrongly-accused-child-abuse/
Forensics: Trumps DNA is the center point in 1990’s rape accusation embedded in defamation lawsuit.
Delaying justice is a common tactic throughout his administration. https://apnews.com/328cf2763624edef08246291b2c3aab6
Posted in DNA profiling, Forensic Science
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Forensics: 1984 murder charge of crime labber now described as lab error.
Those DAs in San Diego are relentless. They’ve ignored this for decades. Crime lab guy suicided before trial. DNA never lies. Right? https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2020-02-04/crime-lab-worker-testifies-he-might-have-contaminated-evidence-in-1984-murder-case
Forensics: Real perps go free after false convictions
A look at how prosecutors and cops play deaf and dumb after innocent defendants are exonerated. https://thecrimereport.org/2020/02/03/prosecutorial-misconduct-getting-away-with-murder/
Forensics: A nurse practitioner and a MD. Another horror story from the bruise pattern experts.
This comes out of Milwaukee WI. Two married docs. Adopting a baby. A visit to the ER. Then the Inquisition started. Falsified records, a bitemarker-like MD who lectures about “saving the children,” inept child abuse advocates, and a reporter who … Continue reading
Forensics: Despite failed field tests, UK police praise facial IDs from street cams.
Here’s a quick look at police “cart before the horse” attitudes on forensics. https://telecoms.com/502056/london-police-push-forward-with-controversial-facial-recognition-tech/
Posted in AAFS, Civil rights, CSI, junk forensic science, police crime labs
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Forensics: Lie detector flimflam in the US 🤯
No better than guessing. Still in use by you know who. https://www.wired.com/story/inside-polygraph-job-screening-black-mirror/
Posted in AAFS, CSI, Forensic Science, junk forensic science
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Forensics: After $220M spent the DC crime lab has ongoing ills
The DC lab was founded in 2012 as independent from cops. That lasted abt a year when the cops took it back. See how that has turned out. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fbi-federal-prosecutors-investigate-districts-forensic-firearms-lab/2020/01/23/c6518f36-3312-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html
