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Forensic Science commentaries and articles for the week – starts off with Prosecutors
Opinions and Commentary and the Bad Side of Criminal Justice California Bill Would Make It a Felony for Prosecutors to Withhold Evidence Spurred by a series of botched murder cases and little accountability, a California lawmaker wants to rein … Continue reading
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The remembrance of lynchings in Alabama contrasted with US politics
Is it clear what a difference a few years make in Alabama? How big was the crowd at Donald Trump’s Alabama rally? “It was one of the greatest events Mobile ever put on aside from Mardi Gras,” said Colby Cooper, … Continue reading
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Gideon redux. Elite lawyers avoid Supreme Court criminal cases. Leave it to novices.
Tony Mauro How Bad is Criminal Defense Advocacy at the Supreme Court? A long-simmering problem in U.S. Supreme Court practice is gaining new attention: the allegedly sorry state of advocacy at the court on behalf of criminal defendants. As the … Continue reading
Shocking. How long it took to debunk the FBI’s use of hair – Brandon Garrett
Santae Tribble is just one of many hundreds of victims of junk forensic testimony. Its a long read, but this journal article (in Litigation of the American Bar Association) by Professor Brandon Garrett runs the true story about the decades … Continue reading
Forensic racism suggests “blinding” case details as a cure.
Here’s a new level of nastiness. The above is an example of scientific racism reported from the forensic anthro post Ancestry, Race and Anthropology. A new example from Iowa. From the Desmoines-Register A thistle to former state forensic scientist Amy Pollpeter, who expressed blatantly racist sentiments on social … Continue reading
A critical look at the Pistorius case and its phony forensic experts
From the NEWS HUB: excerpt: State witness Mangena- Not an expert at all Police captain Chris Mangena said Pistorius was standing on his stumps nearly three metres from a locked toilet door when he opened fire and killed his girlfriend. … Continue reading
When crime labs go rogue. Safety suffers. Honesty seems more doubtful.
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Max Houck (@maxmhouck) used to run the Washington DC Forensic Science facility which then boasted as being “independent” a la Houston’s Forensic Science Center. Above is his Twitter response…
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When crime labs go rogue. Safety suffers. Honesty seems more doubtful.
Max Houck (@maxmhouck) used to run the Washington DC Forensic Science facility which then boasted as being “independent” a la Houston’s Forensic Science Center. Above is his Twitter response to and post about police managers refusing an open and transparent scientific … Continue reading
False forensic testing adds to growing mistrust of cops, their labs and prosecutors
A couple of telling articles call again for the public to understand how the relationship between cops , their crime labs and prosecutors lead to false convictions via intimidating suspects into pleading guilty via misused field testing kits. Barry Scheck … Continue reading
Forensic Standards bill could “transform” forensic science and get rid of bitemark IDs
A new bill introduced last week in the US Congress could put some “teeth” into creating and then enforcing federal standards for the practice of 11 forensic disciplines either criticized or debunked (aka bitemark pattern testimony) by the 2009 National … Continue reading
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