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Forensics: A national disaster: Mexican government says it can’t identify 52,000 corpses due to ‘forensic crisis’ | Daily Mail Online
As many as 31,000 of the 52,000 bodies that have not been identified by Mexican forensic units were recovered from mass graves between 2006 and 2019, and linked to the country’s war with cartels. — Read on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10347737/Mexican-government-says-identify-52-000-corpses-forensic-crisis.html
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Forensics: Ventura County deputy gets jail for tossing drug test
Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, will serve a year in jail after pleading guilty to throwing away a drug test proving a woman innocent, California prosecutors said. — Read on http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article256717752.html
Forensics: Punishment for going to trial results in this: Rogel Aguilera-Mederos Rejected a Plea Deal. So He Got 110 Years in Prison.
Colorado First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said she pursued the punishment after Aguilera-Mederos insisted on his right to trial. — Read on reason.com/2021/12/22/rogel-aguilera-mederos-rejected-a-plea-deal-so-he-got-110-years-in-prison/
Forensics: Bar counsel wants harsher penalties and files Appeals over possible sanctions for 3 former drug lab prosecutors | WBUR News
This has gone on for years. Junk drug testing scandal has fallen onto prosecutors who kept it quiet. The Office of Bar Counsel is appealing proposed sanctions for the three former assistant attorneys general, arguing each should face harsher punishments. … Continue reading
Forensics: Man Who Spent 43 Years in Jail Receives $1M in Donations After Exoneration
The fundraiser quickly surpassed the million-dollar threshold in two days. — Read on http://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-strickland-who-spent-43-years-in-jail-receives-dollar1m-in-donations-after-exoneration
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Forensics: Lieing cops accused. Rodney Reed Files New Petition Alleging Prosecutors Illegally Withheld Evidence for 23 Years | Death Penalty
Prosecutors hid favorable evidence from Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed during his 1998 trial for the murder of Stacey Stites and then argued for his… — Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/rodney-reed-files-new-petition-alleging-prosecutors-illegally-withheld-evidence-for-23-years
Forensics: Forensic psychiatrist who aided JonBenet Ramsey probe killed in Arizona
PHOENIX — A forensic psychiatrist who assisted in the investigations into the 1996 death of JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado and a string of killings in Phoenix more than a decade — Read on denvergazette.com/content/tncms/live/
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Forensics: Go Bode Lab!!Officials seek information after human remains identified in Bensalem Township 1995 cold case
The skeletal remains of a woman who was found in 1995 have been identified, according to the Bensalem Township Police Department. — Read on http://www.fox29.com/news/skeletal-remains-of-woman-identified-in-bensalem-twp-1995-cold-case
Forensics: Lies,lies and more lies in a TX death penalty case. Prosecutors Illegally Hid Evidence in Rodney Reed’s Case for 23 Years
“Rodney Reed’s conviction and death sentence must be overturned.” — Read on innocenceproject.org/for-23-years-prosecutors-illegally-hid-evidence-that-could-have-exonerated-rodney-reed/
Forensics: Double-talking N.C. State Crime Lab, Attorney General defend debunked forensic science that sent innocent men to prison
Just like the MS AG defending bitemarker Michael West in Eddie Lee Howard’s exoneration proceedings. Pure crap. WBTV Investigates first told you this spring about the science called “Microscopic Hair Comparison” which has been discredited with then-FBI Director Jim Comey … Continue reading
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