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The reason there is no change
Originally posted on Eye of the beholder:
Forensic Pathologists trust bitemark pattern injury analysis, and want to use it at their discretion, even if its use becomes passé in identifying the perpetrator. ?The word is out that they think eradication…
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The Junk Science of Bite Marks Needs to Go Away
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
We’ve posted about bite mark junk science here before. See About Bite Mark Evidence – Forensic Odontology. Now, a leading White House science advisor has exhorted the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…
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Federal judge opinion about “experts peddling junk science to credulous judges and jurors”…..
This federal court (from the Chicago area) opinion speaks to how people exonerated of serious crimes have little legal recourse (having no state statutes and judicial case law privileges or right to sue most government “actors.”) for recompense for damages caused … Continue reading
The National Registry of Exons. When convictions go wrong, the price in human suffering can’t be ignored
Read this excerpt first….. “The registry receives four or five letters a week from prisoners who claim to be innocent. They’re heartbreaking. Most of the writers are probably guilty, but some undoubtedly are not. We tell them that we … Continue reading
Forensics : Sandra Bland Autopsy Report performed 7/22/2015 confirms hanging evidence
Full report by Dr. Sara N. Doyle AME Harris County, Texas. Texas Tribune story.
57 months in prison for Iowa State researcher
US vaccine researcher sentenced to prison for fraud. Says he was covering for an earlier lab mistake. The case of Dong-Pyou Han illustrates the uneven nature of penalties for scientific misconduct. http://www.nature.com/news/us-vaccine-researcher-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-1.17660?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
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Forensics: SBS cases study leads to presence of uncommon number of confessions. Are MD’s really cops?
The Child Abuse Pediatrician (CAP) – Just Another Term for Medical “Cop” Washtenaw Watchdogs (Washtenaw County, MI) have just published an investigative report article on their website dealing with this very issue. It’s very powerful. See it HERE. More info on … Continue reading
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US Forensic Odontology Program to provide debunked ABFO bitemark training?
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Photo credit: UT and Ben Francis. Someone at the University of Tennessee needs to rethink this odontology curriculum. I’m sure that the non-ABFO faculty affiliated with this forensic…
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Forensics: A BIG dust up in AUSTRALIA over 400 opines of a state Medical Examiner
This all started with a recent judicial (last year) opinion on a 20 year-old case dealing with “murder in a bathtub.” The government’s path guy, Dr. Colin Manock, got clobbered in a book about this case and which seems to … Continue reading
US Forensic Odontology Program to provide debunked ABFO bitemark training?
Photo credit: UT and Ben Francis. Someone at the University of Tennessee needs to rethink this odontology curriculum. I’m sure that the non-ABFO faculty affiliated with this forensic dentistry program at UT haven’t a clue about what is going on … Continue reading
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