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Pushback from the bitemark believers denies bad cases can happen today. Total bs. Their keepers need to wake up.
The bitemark experts once AGAIN, promise that they will do better. Read the following recent website posting from their head honcho. As usual, nothing about where all his newly found reliability comes from. Maybe its his below-mentioned “Tree” system? All the … Continue reading
A “Cone of Silence” protects junk forensic science and allows it to survive in criminal courts.
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Today’s subject is a brief look back at how pattern evidence from bruised human skin got into the case law of every state in the US. Its not…
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Eyewitness IDs : The Main cause of Wrongful Convictions gets a do-over by the National Research Counsel
After decades of legal and more recent research on doubtful eyewitness testimony has led to this Report from the NRC/NAS. The best reads on this type of “evidence” used by prosecutors are: 1) Professor Brandon Garrett’s “Convicting the Innocent.” 2) … Continue reading
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SpaghettiO caper, Battles over Forensics, Public Policy efforts and wrongful convictions
In California, another bill involving a valiant attempt to prevent the strong correlation of prosecutorial misconduct (in over 800 cases, only less than a 2 handfusl have led to Bar sanctions against state prosecutors) and wrongful convictions was vetoed this … Continue reading
Anti-Junk Forensic Science bill is now law: Criminal Justice Public Policy Breakthrough in California
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law SB 1058 bill. The law permits habeas corpus petitioners (i.e. after a conviction) the ability to contest expert testimony that…
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Anti-Junk Forensic Science bill is now law: Criminal Justice Public Policy Breakthrough in California
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Anti-Junk Forensic Science bill is now law: Criminal Justice Public Policy Breakthrough in California.
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Anti-Junk Forensic Science bill is now law: Criminal Justice Public Policy Breakthrough in California
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law SB 1058 bill. The law permits habeas corpus petitioners (i.e. after a conviction) the ability to contest expert testimony that was presented against them at trial. In other words, experts who either … Continue reading
30 years since 1984 + (in)famous medical examiner gets a jolt of reality from MS appellate court. @radleybalko
30 years since 1984. Pissed off mayor calls SWAT Raids for Parody Twitter Accounts. “Sure, Why Not? SWAT Raids for Everybody! .” A judge said the warrant was PC justified due to “personation (has to do with voter fraud, whatever. ) … Continue reading
A “Cone of Silence” protects junk forensic science and allows it to survive in criminal courts.
Today’s subject is a brief look back at how pattern evidence from bruised human skin got into the case law of every state in the US. Its not a pretty process, as I describe below. Scientists learn from their past … Continue reading
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Time runs out for an innocent man trying to get compensation for 23 years in prison, plus Forensic News
1) The court system is quick to convict and interminably slow to correct prosecutorial mistakes and worse: The Watch @WPTheWatch We need to fix how we compensate the wrongly convicted. 2) A somewhat hilarious yet sadly true exposition on the civil … Continue reading
