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US Crime Lab woes = police indifference + weak budgets + slow results + privatization in some States
Just a cross-section of today’s news feeds on the intersection of crime, crime labs, police and justice. Here are the issues. This entire state’s police force keeps ignoring rape kits. Article from West Washington State. The police and crime lab lost … Continue reading
This is endless. Another DA argues that freedom eliminates a man’s attempt to ID the real rapist.
” The revolving door of criminal justice means that once you are in, you can never get out “- ANON NY Innocence Project attorney, Vanessa Potkin, takes on a DA who objects to post conviction DNA testing of Potkin’s client. … Continue reading
Another DA hopes to support bad Shaken Baby “science” with legal mumbo-jumbo during appeal
Game of Lawyers: Another DA hoping to support bad forensic sciences with legalistic mumbo jumbo. DA to Appeal Shaken Baby Conviction Reversal via @WrongConvBlog The Wrongful Conviction Blog article correctly opines that a higher court’s supporting the banishment of medical support for … Continue reading
Don’t drink the foxglove tea, slow crime lab production and more police involved shootings being investigated
700 year old murder mystery gets a forensic ending. “Evidence data dump” by DA during innocence litigation hearing not ruled misconduct. The judge was not happy. Another DA hoping to support bad forensic sciences with legalistic mumbo jumbo. DA … Continue reading
The unethical rule of politics in the US justice system described as “The Criminalization of Nearly Everything” + Forensic Science News
“The criminalization of nearly everything.” Podcast by journalist Radley Balko explaining the excessive amount and the maze of state and federal laws being overbroad, vague and nearly indefensible for defendants. This system can overwhelm the “presumed innocent until proven guilty” constitutional principle. This … Continue reading
Disposable civil rights when Whites accuse Blacks
Seldom heard stories of lost freedoms caused by white eyewitnesses, police, forensic labs and prosecutors impuning constitutonal rights. This is from the black side of the courtroom. 10 Egregious Cases of White People Falsely Accusing Black People of Committing Crimes
Forensics in Focus @csidds | Feb 24, 2014| Years Old DNA Testing vs Current DNA Testing | A case of first impression?
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
MONDAY FEB 24, 2014 CRIME LABs: New DNA TECH vs “outdated” DNA methods The history of DNA technology, its standards and population statistics use in criminal courts goes…
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Another DA uninterested in protecting the public
This Prosecutor would rather put public safety at risk having the real criminal still at large than allowing a simple DNA test to prove or deny his office made a mistake. A real chickenshit move http://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2015/01/08/prosecutors-fight-dna-test-rape-case/21471157/
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How Police run Crime Labs can keep their employees in line: More on retaliation in forensic sciences
Suit charges “retaliation for opinions about the lab” – Ex-Police lab director sues supervisors over demotion – Other types of professional retaliation relating to forensic science. here and here. When a man is wrongfully arrested…….Jailed 12 days, man proves his mistaken … Continue reading
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Allegations of Crime Lab planting evidence may not be enough for reversal of conviction
Planted evidence from a Crime lab (the OJ defense) is not the magic bullet for everyone arguing innocence. Forensic misconduct charges before Nebraska higher court affecting a murder case. Legal argument from the DA says “eyewitness” evidence is sufficient to sustain life … Continue reading
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