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Criminal Law Blog Resource List : For Curious #Forensic Bloggers and Some Journalists
This is a list of 50 twitter accounts and blog posts on this subject. It is no way comprehensive but it is a good place to start. Ignore the cheapo advert at the top.
Thursday’s Quick Clicks…
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
The link between incarcerations, plea bargains and violent neighborhoods Why innocent people plead guilty, by federal judge Jed Rakoff In Japan, man exonerated from death row helping capital punishment abolitionists Exoneree Kirk Odom seeks…
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Racial discrimination and retaliation in #Forensic #Science never a topic at annual #AAFS meetings
Charges of racial discrimination in forensics. Sounds like a hostile working and personnel environment to me. Former crime lab employee suing City of Columbia for $3 million over poor training, poor lab equipment, retaliation, loss of reputation, income, emotional distress … Continue reading
Recovery therapy still being used to foster false accusations
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
“The belief that hidden memories can be ‘recovered’ in therapy should have been exorcised years ago, when a rash of false memories dominated the airwaves, tore families apart and put people on the stand…
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More Social Media responses on #Junk #Forensic #Science involving the #AAFS
The topic from my last blog on the unfair composition of the NCFS Working Group on “bitemark science” which poses one legitimate forensic researcher against a platoon of self described bitemark believers has brought more responses from the public who … Continue reading
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Social Media on the US Forensic Sci Commission raises public concerns about a failed “science” in its mist.
Folks in the public sector who have been following the machinations of the bitemark “board” belonging to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences have been disappointed with the makeup and ingrained status quo culture of most members of the NIST … Continue reading
Blacks must wait longer to be exonerated, study shows
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
From The Huffington Post: By Michael McLaughlin It took 18 years for DNA evidence to surface that cleared Derrick Williams of a rape and attempted kidnapping in Florida. Prosecutors had relied on the testimony of the…
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DNA is to blame when certain forensic science orgs get caught with their underwear showing. Again
I am struck with the recent declarations by the NCFS regarding their non-mandatory “solutions” to forensic experts being scientifically “shady” in their testimony. Some folks may ask, “What is the backstory on this? Why is this group (now composed of the … Continue reading
#Forensic #Science #Commission Pushbacks against Junk Forensic Experts
Progress is being made towards Forensic Science Reform. It has taken 5 years to get coordinated (but preliminary) recommendations from organized forensic practitioners since the 2009 NAS Report on “Strengthening Forensics Sciences.” The NAS slammed a fistful of long accepted forensic … Continue reading
Befuddled #Forensic #Science dentists resort to a color chart as a safeguard against their history of faulty convictions
For the life of me, I cannot translate into words, what the think tank (really a kiddie pond) of the bitemark group (the ABFO recognized by the AAFS as an elite forensics certifying board) is now up to. Agronomy? Aborism … Continue reading
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