Category Archives: AAFS

Forensics: Why Texas told the ABFO bitermarkers to buzz off.

Its Forensic Science Commission spent significant resources in their interviews with independent scientists about the dentists’ claiming bitemark reliability. The dentists showed up and lost. http://www.txcourts.gov/media/1445768/bite-mark-review-report.pdf

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Forensics: 150 families showed up. #NamUS. UCO To Host Oklahoma Missing Persons Day Event

UCO To Host Oklahoma Missing Persons Day Event — Read on http://www.news9.com/story/64454d5905cfab072ba81ede/uco-to-host-oklahoma-missing-persons-day-event

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Forensics: My take on why the ABFO bitemarker dentists should be booted from the AAFS.

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Forensics: Washington Launches Cold Case Unit for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

Washington Launches Cold Case Unit for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People | The Daily Chronicle — Read on http://www.chronline.com/stories/washington-launches-cold-case-unit-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people,317806

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Forenscis: Kudos to #NamUS and RTI for Genetic Geneaology on this case. Human remains discovered in 1990 finally identified

Human remains discovered in 1990 finally identified | The Ely Times — Read on elynews.com/2023/04/19/human-remains-discovered-in-1990-finally-identified/

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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/

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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

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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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