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Forensics: Nazi-era Credit-Suisse bank accounts revealed still active in 2020.
Chairman Press | Chairman’s Newsroom | Chairman | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget — Read on http://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/credit-suisse-maintained-nazi-linked-accounts-into-21st-century-subpoenaed-records-show
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Forensics: Good for him. UC Irvine’s Leo Chavez elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences | UCI News | UCI
Renowned anthropologist studies international migration, particularly among Latinos — Read on news.uci.edu/2023/04/19/uc-irvines-leo-chavez-elected-to-membership-in-the-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/
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Forensics: DA says “righteous conviction” to deny access. The Supreme Court Allows Rodney Reed to Fight for DNA Testing
Texas has gone to great lengths to prevent DNA testing of crime scene evidence that Reed says could exonerate him. — Read on theintercept.com/2023/04/19/supreme-court-dna-testing-rodney-reed/
Forensics: Unethical lawyers lose out. Federal Appeals Court rules wrongfully imprisoned NC brothers don’t owe former law firm
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling favoring two wrongfully imprisoned N.C. brothers against their former law firm. The firm had sued the brothers to recover unpaid legal fees and expenses. — Read on … Continue reading
Forensics: More on abysmal medical incompetence in prisons. Illinois prisoners endangered by lack of medical staff
An independent monitor reported problems are largely related to major staffing shortages, with 46% of medical positions left unfilled. — Read on http://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-prisoners-endangered-by-lack-of-medical-staff/f2940a7b-59ec-44e0-a238-ec7ede5948fd
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Forensics: Medical horror story. Giving Birth in Jail Often Comes With Medical Neglect, Texas Jail Project Finds
Texas Jail Project has spent years tracking stories of medical neglect and abuse during pregnancy in county jails all over the state. — Read on http://www.teenvogue.com/story/giving-birth-in-jail
Forensics: DeSantis killed the previous attempt to rid cop “hypnosis evidence.” Texas Senate advances bill to ban testimony derived under hypnosis
Forensic hypnosis is a technique used by law enforcement to boost a witness’s recall of the people, conversations and environment related to a crime. — Read on http://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2023/04/18/texas-senate-bill-338-prohibit-testimony-under-hypnosis-advances/70089073007/
Forensics: Inadequate forensic funding redux. Tougher drug penalties mean more work, longer waits at state crime labs
Texas lawmakers want tougher criminal penalties for possession of delta-8 and fentanyl. But that would mean much more work for the crime labs handling most of the drug testing for the state’s 254 counties. — Read on http://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/12/texas-drugs-crime-evidence/
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Forensics: An alternate legal universe. The junk-science ruling restricting mifepristone approval uses language directly lifted from anti-abortion activists and media.
The junk-science ruling restricting mifepristone approval uses language directly lifted from anti-abortion activists and spread by right-wing media | Media Matters for America — Read on http://www.mediamatters.org/health-care/junk-science-ruling-restricting-mifepristone-approval-uses-language-directly-lifted
Forensics: Searching for descendants. Tulsa Race Massacre investigators have sequenced DNA from 6 possible victims
The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city’s prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead. — Read on http://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169464890/tulsa-race-massacre-dna-sequencing-mass-graves
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