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Forensics : British custody death inquiry gets messier when a US forensic expert talks to tabloids
Court appointed forensic experts need to keep their mouths shut when involved in police custody death inquiries. In fact, they should stay out of the news throughout any of these so-called “independent reviews” of custodial inmate deaths. The only exception … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Forensic science, forensic testimony
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Russian #7K9268 shoot down victims’ DNA will be compared to family reference specimens : No odontology
Its strange that the Russian officials reportedly will not include odontology (forensic dentistry) in this human recovery event. Dentistry is included in forensic protocols throughout the world. Considering the high fragmentation of the passengers and crew’s remains, the Russian government … Continue reading
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Tagged human identification, mass disaster recovery, Russian Metrojet
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Forensics : DAs mess up their own DNA evidence and judge lets them use it against the defense
Douglas Prade has spent over 29 years in prison, then was released by another judge for 16 months and then re-imprisoned since July 2014 by another judge. The physical evidence (a bitemark) of his identification presented at the original trial that … Continue reading
Forensics : “Outsiders from New York causing problems” in Oklahama and elsewhere
This is not a re run of “Anatomy of a Murder.” Law enforcement protectors in Tulsa are irate that 1) they recently had to pay out $8 million to a wrongly convicted African-American and 2) those damned exoneration litigators from … Continue reading
Grass roots effort to improve justice in 3 Mississippi Counties : Voters and Exoneration Documentary
Carrington Op-ed From Mississippi The Dispatch What the esteemed MS Law Professor and MS Innocence Project director Tucker Carrington (pictured above) does not say in his opinion piece urging voters to elect a new DA (long term Forrest Allgood is the incumbent and a … Continue reading
Example of a sketchy relationship between a Medical Examiner and Insurance Companies
Nothing raises doubts about a medical expert when he repeats one-off and repetitive causes of death opinions in civil or criminal cases. The Missoulian. Complete CSI Forensic lab for sale. Only used once.
Innocence Project investigators uncover cache of bitemark cases suppressed by the bite-mark believers
All this started about two months ago. While denying scientific realities and protocols combined with a history of damaging the US criminal justice system, the AAFS/ABFO recently powered up to oppose Texas looking into their dental courtroom activities. The Forensic Science Commission was made in 2013 … Continue reading
A hunt for bitemark cases in TX : Help the TX Forensic Sci Commission find the ABFO hidden casework
, This is a lapel button representing the”Ouija Board of Forensic Odontology” (from the Ray Krone Family). They are paroding the ABFO bitemark bunch. The latest on the cynical attitude of some in the American Board of Forensic Odontology is … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice reform
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bad forensic science, bite mark, bitemark, Bitemarks, CSI, forensic examiner error, junk forensic science, wrongful convictions
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Its time to de-qualify bitemark experts. Forensic “mistakes” revealed by DNA – A bitemark expert gets $50K to ID the wrong man -Twice
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Ray Krone (pictured above at an innocence/forensic science reform seminar) spent 10 years in AZ prison. Part of it on death row. Then a retrial that gave him…
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Its time to de-qualify bitemark experts. Forensic “mistakes” revealed by DNA – A bitemark expert gets $50K to ID the wrong man -Twice
Ray Krone (pictured above at an innocence/forensic science reform seminar) spent 10 years in AZ prison. Part of it on death row. Then a retrial that gave him a life sentence. Dr Ray Rawson, once a notable bitemark prophet, received … Continue reading
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