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Non-unanimous jury verdict of death and junk science at SCOTUS
Petition for Certiorari to SCOTUS: Sireci v. Florida Issue(s): Whether a state court violates a petitioner’s federal due process rights when it denies a new trial and DNA testing in an actual innocence case in which newly discovered evidence demonstrates … Continue reading
Witness a total breakdown of justice in these arguments about Dookhin lab scandal
The MA Supremes are quivering about what kind of ‘justice’ defendants to massive crime lab fraud monumental scale deserve after 4 years after this became public. The link requires a non fee “signup” to the Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/16/sjc-hear-arguments-dookhan-crime-lab-scandal/bIg0k9QwoKg3lfsopqKTCM/story.html From the … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal justice, falsified evidence, forensic examiner error
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“Claw-like” skull fracture matching shows up at retrial for murder
Besides the shape of the skull breakage, there are defense claims that the crime scene recovery and storage of DNA was botched. The state claims a fall down stairs is not what killed her. It’s reasons for homicide at Peterson’s … Continue reading
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Tagged crime labs, criminal justice, DNA profiling, Forensic science
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The Nor Cal Innocence Project’s costs to cleanup ONE wrongful conviction
Of course, many DAs in this state do not believe that such things like convicting the innocent occurs. That’s the direct implication of their successful death penalty bill that won 52-48 percent of CA voters. Read the numbers about how … Continue reading
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Tagged costs of wrongful convictions, exoneration, wrongful convictions
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Crime lab’s woes after Forensic Commission’s audit – Texas
Austin’s lab affecting 120 criminal cases. Most defendants still in jail. Austin crime lab shut down in June Crime lab scrambles
A California DA looks at racial component to filings and crime in Santa Clara
Over 60 pages with many pie charts and graphs. Little in the way of firm conclusions and remedies although he touches on over representations of specific racial groups, income, and education dropout rates. Why did you study Race and Prosecutions … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal justice, US race and crime in California county
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Musings about Trump and Science from the ‘Journal of Nature’
The slate is largely blank, except for PEOTUS’ climate change rhetoric. http://www.nature.com/news/the-ultimate-experiment-how-trump-will-handle-science-1.20971?WT.ec_id=NEWSDAILY-20161114
Taking decades to uncover lost DNA: California will execute in 5 years
Needle-in-a-haystack hunt for evidence in old Virginia murder case required endurance, luck But what may prove the toughest obstacle was overcome two years ago by a private investigator and a persistent University of Virginia Hospital employee who scaled warehouse ladders … Continue reading
Read about the last $$ spent on bitemark research- A waste of $700K
The now lame-duck President’s Council on Sci Tech tried to lay this junk to rest in 2016. The NIJ funded $700K in 2006 to have these two guys study pig skin bitemarks and to make something called “Tom’s toolbox.” http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-05-14-3530693888_x.htm
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Tagged Bad forensic science, bite marks, Bitemarks, wrongful convictions
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Fingerprints tell the tale – Bitemarks are a forensic joke
These prints have no relationship to the above case. A bitemark that still has J Kunco in prison for a over a quarter of a century. Two pictures of one bitemark. Taken at different times. The bitemark experts recently restated … Continue reading
