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Forensics: Pro bono Lawyers have found the parents of 105 separated migrant children in past month
This speaks volumes to the lies and incompetence of the last four years. Lawyers have found the parents of 105 separated migrant children in past month — Read on http://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1258791
Posted in AAFS, Perjury by Prosecutors
Tagged US immigration human rights violations
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Forensics: Rules regarding federal statute on cop shootings needs a redo. George Floyd, et al.
A new federal grand jury has been empaneled in Minneapolis and the Justice Department has called new witnesses as part of its investigation of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who will go on trial in state court next month … Continue reading
Forensics: Reusing old anti-vax tropes. Lipid nanoparticles: The antivax “toxins gambit” reborn for COVID-19 vaccines
Starts off with a little molecular -biology. Remember those classes? Ribosomes, aminos, mRNA, protein synthesis? Then go into the bat-shit mumbo-jumbo of the anti-vax quacks. Stuff like “neuro-toxicity” and “gene splicing” drivel. Junk science popularized just like the bitemark crowd … Continue reading
Forensics: Biden’s Science Adviser Pick Could Advance Justice Reforms – Law360
This article portrays all the many players involved in both promoting and inhibiting evidence-based advances in certain forensic methods. It mentions bitemark evidence and the racial inequities of bad science on POC seeking exonerations. This arguing about junk forensic science … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, Civil rights, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform, CSI, Exoneration costs, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, junk forensic science, police crime labs
Tagged Eric Landers, innocence project
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Forensics: Full of false equivalencies. Op-ed claims ‘The face of hysteria: New York must preserve facial recognition as a tool for law enforcement ‘ – New York Daily News
Terrific example of “use it and fix it later.” Ive heard the same about phrenology and bitemarks as recently presented at #AAFS2021. Here is how the NYPD manipulates video evidence. Ridiculous. The op-ed is below these images. The Minneapolis City … Continue reading
Forensics: Cognitive bias in forensic pathology decisions – Journal of Forensic Sciences
This study determined a group of National Association of Medical Examiner pathologists have a predilection to determine death of black children 5x more likely as homicide compared to dead white kids. NAME also takes the position that the ABFO bitemarker … Continue reading
Forensics: Sentenced to death, but innocent: These are stories of justice gone wrong. National Geographic @The_AAFS
In depth discussion and interviews. Includes Ray Krone who was put on death row by AAFS/ABFO bite dentist, Ray Rawson. The DA in his case spent $50K for the dental expert. The defense got $1500. Ray’s family petitioned the ABFO … Continue reading
Foolensics: Fauci unloads on Anti-Science Trump: ‘He did things that were terrible’ when I contradicted him – Raw Story
This is not a pun. Fools have been in charge for years. They never had a clue. False promises and lies. People died. Dr. Anthony Fauci unloaded on former President Donald Trump in an interview with the UK newspaper The … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, junk forensic science, Mass Disaster recovery, Medical errors
Tagged pandemic incompetence
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Forensics: Missing girl’s body found on Crow Reservation | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Indigenous female murder rates are spiking. Little mentioned in major media. Unacceptable. Missing girl’s body found on Crow Reservation | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women | billingsgazette.com — Read on billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/mmiw/missing-girls-body-found-on-crow-reservation/article_2674ccb0-3cf2-58b2-8f62-64f8a25be3e9.amp.html
Posted in AAFS, Crime, criminal justice, US homicide statistics analysis
Tagged indigenous murder rates
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Frensics: Anthro: ‘Rare’ Roman penis carving found in Cambridgeshire
Id say impressive. ‘Rare’ Roman penis carving found in Cambridgeshire – BBC News — Read on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-cambridgeshire-56113457