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Forensics: Protect and Serve. Georgia Southern QB says false-positive field test showed bird droppings as cocaine
Straight to law enforcement chem-tests are nortorious for this. You can add Georgia Southern University’s starting quarterback to the list of innocent people wrongly charged with drugs based on a faulty roadside drug test. — Read on http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-southern-qb-says-false-positive-field-test-showed-bird-droppings-as-cocaine.amp
Forensics: Excited delerium vs 9 taser shots. Nationally known pathologist calls Jamal Sutherland’s cause of death disgusting.
The Charleston County Coroner and the independent pathologist who examined Jamal Sutherland’s body will not discuss the case. So we went to a nationally known forensic expert for an explanation. A forensic autopsy determined Sutherland died from an “excited state … Continue reading
Forensics: A pathologist’s career of helping victims. “You Save as Long as You Have To”
Distressed by authorities’ poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, one doctor became a DNA archivist long before we had the technology to test it. For potentially hundreds of survivors, his faith in science is paying off. — … Continue reading
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Forensics. Scientist Faces Legal threats and police searches: Debate explodes over baby shaking science
Forensic Science progress is personally and professionally risky. Waney Squire MD had similar retribution in the UK. Legal threats and police searches: Debate explodes over baby shaking science — Read on amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/legal-threats-and-police-searches-debate-explodes-over-baby-shaking-science-20210513-p57rkp.html
Forensics Australia: Review of ‘junk’ forensic science in courts abandoned
More proof that in general, politics, government, and forensic science improvement are incompatible partners. Complaints about confused juries, junk science and possible miscarriages of justice prompted an investigation into forensic science, which has been shelved. — Read on http://www.smh.com.au/national/review-of-junk-forensic-science-in-courts-abandoned-20210520-p57thx.html
Body cam video sheds light on traffic stop where police test child’s ashes for meth
Body cam video sheds light on traffic stop where police test child’s ashes for meth — Read on newschannel20.com/amp/news/local/body-cam-video-sheds-light-on-traffic-stop-where-police-test-childs-ashes-for-meth
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Forensics: Op-Ed: Forensic Pathology’s Dirty Secret | MedPage Today
Why do we eat our own? — Read on http://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/working-stiff/92683
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Forensics: Director of D.C.’s troubled crime lab resigns after scathing audit report
Good grief. Their ballistics unit got the previous director fired. Back then the lab was praised for being independent from law enforcement. Then law enforcement took it back. The agency botched a ballistics exam in a murder case, then “misrepresented” … Continue reading
Forensics: This should include ME/Coroner offices. Craft an African American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Universities and museums must catalogue the remains of Black Americans in their collections, and pause research pending consultation with descendant communities. — Read on http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01320-4
Forensics: Human tissue preserved since World War I yields new clues about 1918 pandemic | Science | AAAS
RNA found in specimens from German patients shows the virus may have adapted between first and second waves — Read on http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/human-tissue-preserved-world-war-i-yields-new-clues-about-1918-pandemic
