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The odds of Innocents getting convicted just increased with Sessions – The Atlantic
“The attorney general is standing athwart a long overdue movement to reform forensics yelling stop.” “Sessions was the first Congressperson to endorse The Donald.” “Lest you think it is unfair to tar Sessions with Trump’s execrable behavior, here is what … Continue reading
DOJ takeover of forensic policy making and practice – Comments Deadline Ap 12 11:59 EDT
Making comments to the US DOJ is largely pointless since its boss AG Sessions is determined to control the playing field of US forensic science to the advantage of the prosecutors. All of this is via their series of lies … Continue reading
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Prosecutors as science policy makers are now ABOVE the Science – Summary of Responses
Here’s a summary of MSM responses to the Republican establishment of a State recognized forensic science industry. Sessions appointment of an ‘advisory panel’ on police forensics will surely be a stunning array of mostly police trained flunkies. Jeff Session wants … Continue reading
Taking Science Out Of Forensics is Wrong: Erin Murphy
With prosecutors and police officers in control, expect more wrongful convictions. Read about their sketchy history of mistakes and blatant denial of responsibility for wrongful convictions.
National DAs backup DOJ and police control of #Forensic Standards and Practices. #Resist
A very measured PR statement by a DA claiming many good things to come by allowing prosecutors to pick and choose their agendized concepts of forensic standards and practices. This is despite the Innocence Projects continuing to show his brand … Continue reading
Stand Strong On Forensic Science Reform – And AGAINST DOJ FAKE NEWS
I have played a bit of poker in my day, but the double-crosses and bluffing we are getting from the our glorious leaders of the Republican Administration is getting old fast. Their deconstructing and lock-step revision of 10 years of … Continue reading
US Forensics now in charge of Prosecutors
Backsliding from bipartisan input on forensic science reform continues to invest more control to the police and the @NDAA (District Attorneys). These are the same lawyer bunch who think bitemark matching is a jolly good means of human identification. Washington … Continue reading
Indian and Saudi bitemark experts assume human dentition is unique – Arab Forensic Journal
These bitemark comparison mini-studies have been around for decades. They generally use a few subjects (in this ‘study” there are 20 biters) who bite into wax, clay, bubble gum etc. The superimposition method used was developed in the 1970’s (a … Continue reading
University-based #Forensic Science 50 years of independent crime analysis – Scotland
Strathclyde University’s forensic program began way before DNA showed up in the 80’s and clearly operates untouched by police management of their operations and decision-making. In the US, the police forensic experts can show up in uniforms or wearing their … Continue reading
How weakly supported #Forensics goes viral – The media’s responsibility
A glimpse at ‘modern forensics’ and the ‘modern media.’ In this story, we see evidence that various ‘news reporters’ and salaried journalists to the list of people like judges and DAs need better insight into the scientific method. I am … Continue reading
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