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Forensics: Despite misuse, exaggeration, and bad convictions. How Texas almost banned forensic hypnosis.
The controversial practice of using forensic hypnosis in Texas courtroom was almost banned when it passed unanimously the legislature. But then Gov. Abbott vetoed it. — Read on http://www.tpr.org/news/2021-12-15/how-texas-almost-banned-forensic-hypnosis
Forensics: Disaster. Sweeping report urges DC to review every case handled by firearms, fingerprint units at troubled crime lab
Senior leaders at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences have come under intense scrutiny in a scathing top-to-bottom review of the District’s now unaccredited crime lab. — Read on wtop.com/dc/2021/12/sweeping-report-urges-dc-to-review-every-case-handled-by-firearms-fingerprint-units-at-troubled-crime-lab/
Forensics: How Many Missing Children Are Found Each Year? | The Committee for Missing Children, Inc.
The real story = 97.8% are found. Wondering how many missing children are found each year? Keep reading to find out the percent of kids returned to their parents each year. — Read on findthekids.org/2021/06/how-many-missing-children-are-found-each-year/
Forensics: Torrance police’s racist texts could jeopardize many cases – Los Angeles Times
The Times has identified a dozen Torrance police officers who are under investigation for sharing racist and homophobic text messages and images. — Read on http://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-08/torrance-police-traded-racist-homophobic-texts-it-could-jeopardize-hundreds-of-cases
Forensics: Wow!!Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania | Nature
Bipedal trackways discovered in 1978 at Laetoli site G, Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago are widely accepted as the oldest unequivocal evidence of obligate bipedalism in the human lineage1–3. Another trackway discovered two years earlier at nearby … Continue reading
Forensics: Tell this to the ABFO age “analysts.” Third molar development in a London population of White British and Black British or other Black ethnicity – Andrews – Journal of Forensic Sciences
Third molar development in a London population of White British and Black British or other Black ethnicity – Andrews – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library — Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14928
Forensics: DNA helps solve 1979 killing of Las Vegas teenager
Forty-two years after Las Vegas teenager Kim Bryant was sexually assaulted and murdered, police say that DNA evidence has identified her killer. — Read on http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dna-helps-solve-1979-killing-las-vegas-teenager-rcna7024
Forensics: Exoneration leads to backlash as Alice Sebold Memoir ‘Lucky’ Flooded with Negative Reviews After Anthony Broadwater Exoneration
Anthony Broadwater was exonerated last week, having served 16 years in prison after being falsely accused of raping the author. — Read on http://www.newsweek.com/alice-sebold-memoir-lucky-amazon-reviews-anthony-broadwater-exoneration-1654001
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Forensics: 51 prisoners will have their cases reviewed for potential wrongful convictions over hair analysis | Colorado Public Radio
Only 49 states to go. Investigators and lawyers will look at convictions between 1976 and 1995, where the prisoners are still alive and currently serving sentences. — Read on http://www.cpr.org/2021/11/29/51-prisoners-will-have-their-cases-reviewed-for-potential-wrongful-convictions-over-hair-analysis/
Forensics: Total copaganda. Cops in NY have never had a 90% clearance rate. “Murders ‘Doubled Overnight,’ and the Percentage Solved by the N.Y.P.D. Plunged”- The New York Times
This writer is a fool. Changes in discovery rules is very upsetting for police. This article is pure sham. The police solved nearly 90 percent of murder cases before the pandemic, but only around 60 percent in 2020. — Read … Continue reading
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