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Another bitemark-based conviction overturned. Dentist calls original testimony “junk.”
This is the 25th conviction or incarceration aided by dental bitemark experts that has been overturned or dismissed in the US. How many more are there? The bitemark organization, the ABFO, is deaf and dumb and lying to the State … Continue reading
Vivid case of child-to-child bitemark activity according to police in San Antonio, TX
Being able to reliably determine a skin injury can be diagnosed as a human bitemark is often a point of confusion and disagreement for forensic bitemark people and ER nurses and docs. . This case goes beyond that as police … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
Jamie Lee Peterson who spent more than 17 years locked up for a rape and murder he didn’t commit is suing state officials and village police for a “deeply flawed” investigation that led to his…
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A federal prosecutor’s technical spy expert gets some egg in a high-level espionage case dismissal
In a rare example of feds turning from a prosecution, with all their tech resources in science, the recently dismissed spy charges against US Temple University physics professor Xi Xiaoxing is rare. He was accused of sending technical information [ … Continue reading
Forensic Science from many different directions, some not so much “science”
I will kill Radovan Krejcir if he escapes, says forensic consultant Paul O’Sullivan. The expert who sleuths with the police and may be taking things a bit too far regarding being a “neutral” spectator of fact and science. 300 episodes of “CSI” … Continue reading
Illinois State Police lab has some validation problems – toxicology
Sounds like these labs exist in a parallel universe of sloppy machines and unvalidation. 2 SD deviation of results is OK? Who is running this show? http://abc7chicago.com/news/forensic-failures-at-state-crime-labs-may-jeopardize-cases/998927/
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Forensics: Police “Predictive Data” used to intimidate persons with criminal past or who hang out with “bad people”
Sounds like a crime preventive measure that so far hasn’t had a published cutoff threshold for separating innocent from the real perps. I bet once you are picke up in this archive of “suspicious types” it will probably be permanent. … Continue reading
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The Writ of Habeas of Corpus in tatters lays obstacles for appeals and exonerations.
The Demise of Habeas Corpus and the Rise of Qualified Immunity: The Court’s Ever Increasing Limitations on the Development and Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Some Particularly Unfortunate Consequences Stephen R. Reinhardt* The collapse of habeas corpus as a remedy … Continue reading
Respected DNA experts Rudin, Inman, and Seigel weigh into DC Crime Lab politics and DNA “secret” statistics”
The following is an excerpt of some of the juicer parts of a in-depth after action article by Norah Rudin and Keith Inman in the California Association of Criminalists news letter. They dissect (the long article with accompanying documents starts … Continue reading
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