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Look-back and breaking news on why crimes labs should have independent oversight
This all blows opposite to what the cop crime labs are saying and its a good thing. Here’s the latest from California about botched lab false-positive semen testing results that goes back decades. A hearsay statement has the Santa Clara … Continue reading
American Academy of Forensic Sciences asks public for bitemark validation studies
In an equitable move [probably in the face of all the LEO crime labs complaining] requested by the President’s Council of Science and Technology chairman, Eric Lander, the AAFS is asking its membership to provide more information not mentioned in … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice reform, DNA mixtures, DNA profiling
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Science in Forensics deniers mostly work for the Cops – No suprise
Here’s a 2015 post that foretells the 2016 pushback on Obama’s Science Council mere mention of “data’based” supported criminal justice for police experts in the US. #LongRead A crime lab “conspiracy theorist” blows off the Innocence Project and criminal justice … Continue reading
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Crim Law: Proposed statutes to counteract use of flawed forensics
Statutory triggers to require audits of tainted crime lab evidence Vigorous affirmative efforts to notify clients of the unreliable forensic evidence Meaningful access to discovery including transcripts, lab notes, etc. Allowing DNA testing when samples are available in a case … Continue reading
Crime lab admits data-driven forensics is here to stay
Taking a strong stance about using data and therefore statistical analysis, a local crime lab says PCAST reinforced what is already being done. It’s a rather large generalization, but their hearts are pure. Now, if only the District Attorneys … Continue reading
Hair matching went away due to the efforts of the Innocence Project – Bitemarks next
In 2013, FBI began its post conviction review in collaboration with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Project. By 2015, it had mined through hundreds of cases and identified errors in 90 percent of the testimony … Continue reading
Creepy Politics Goes After the Dead and Buried – Exhumation
The body of the Philippine dictator, Fernando Marcos, may get disinterred and maybe rexamined in some manner, if various politicians get their way in court. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/848626/sc-asked-to-order-exhumation-forensic-exam-of-marcos-remains
Utter silence from over 400 individual US crimes labs after @PCAST forensic report
The US crime lab communities that receive public funding were said to number over 400 (see below) in the 2009 Bureau of Justice Statistics report. Its striking to me that NOTHING has been in the news about what they think … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal justice, CSI, Forensic science, PCAST
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Steven Avery: Close Look at DNA testing and re-testing and non-testing for @ZellnerLaw
Social media is never a good place to divine what’s happening fact-wise in “Making A Murderer” (or in any forensic case for that matter) but here is a collection of the latest. Claims about what the DNA testing list agreed … Continue reading
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A science-based blast at Prosecutors’ belief in alchemy, voodoo and bitemarks
Oxford University Press’ Journal of Law and the Biosciences just published an amicus curiae (i.e. friend of the court) anti-bitemark treatise which empirically debunks the recent PCAST deniers such as the National DA Association, the IAI, a ‘congress’ of crime labs, the US Department … Continue reading
