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Forensic experts take on the NAS concerns about fingerprint examiners’ disagreement.
Fingerprint Examiners Found to Have Very Low Error Rates {By a group of 109 government fingerprint experts Investigations into the reliability of fingerprint matches continues. This news release from a NIJ funded project states a strong position for its reliability … Continue reading
Perjury Prosecution for Lying Prosecutors?
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
I am not an attorney, but in my layman’s, non-legal opinion this is potentially (and I say only potentially) huge. The US Ninth Circuit has advocated criminal perjury prosecution for a prosecutor who lied to the…
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The personal dangers of protecting the innocent and underprivileged around the world : Similar issues exist in the US.
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Civil rights and humanitarian legal advocacy is “The most dangerous job in law.” Prison, exile and worse exists around the world for legal advocates. These stories make the…
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The personal dangers of protecting the innocent and underprivileged around the world : Similar issues exist in the US.
Civil rights and humanitarian legal advocacy is “The most dangerous job in law.” Prison, exile and worse exists around the world for legal advocates. These stories make the pushback in the US against forensic and judicial reform seem paltry in … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice, exoneration, forensic science reform, National FOrensic Science Commission, prosecutorial misconduct, Ray Krone bitemark case, William Richards Exoneration Case
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, forensic testimony, Miscarriage of justice, National Commission on Forensic Science, wrongful convictions
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Full text of judge’s resignation letter to US forsci commission
Read this. This plays to the politics behind the National Forensic Science Commission. The right to a fair trial and a fully informed defense takes another hit. The Commission is strongly composed of government employed forensic experts from the American … Continue reading
News Break : National Commission on Forensic Science member quits due to DOJ
Another addition to the growing list of questionable agenda and actions involving this Commission. Previous blogs at csidds.com talked about how the bitemark sub-committee, its chairman and its dentist members, are all adherents to the “shaky” forensic science of bitemark … Continue reading
UK: Worries about forensic science capabilities elicits a response from police
UK: Law enforcement tries to calm the public about below average forensic science capabilities. In response to this news article about the threat to investigatory capabilities of police crime labs, this response just came out from South Wales police agency. … Continue reading
“Friendship Nine’s” Convictions Vacated
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
Pioneers of the civil rights lunch counter sit-in’s in South Carolina, known as the Friendship Nine, have had their convictions vacated and their names cleared. See the CNN story here.
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Stories about Exonerations do work : 2014 the highest ever at 125 : Trial Judge worrying about possible wrongful conviction, shuts down DA
Exonerations of U.S. criminals hit record in 2014: study (Reuters) – The number of U.S. criminals exonerated in 2014 climbed to a record high of 125, in part because of efforts by prosecutors willing to admit their offices made mistakes, … Continue reading
Advances in Forensic Fire Science leads to man’s release after 36 years in prison
The article at the end quotes the defense attorney saying “the criminal justice system works.” Thats one side of the coin, and it may be a bit of a stretch, but is not the entire story. It has taken forensic … Continue reading
