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Forensics: Based on his testimony in George Floyd’s autopsy. Review of cases under former Maryland medical examiner expected to get underway this year – The Washington Post
The probe was sparked by former chief medical examiner David Fowler’s testimony in defense of the Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/02/maryland-medical-examiner-cases-review/
Forensics: Opinion | Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated – The Washington Post
Bitemark stories from my casebook. The number of experts who can claim to have sent two innocent men to death row is pretty small. Michael West did it in a week. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/sherwood-brown-exonerated-michael-west/
California Innocence Project: The man who helps people on death row – BBC News
American Justin Brooks, who is partly based in the UK, has freed people from death row. — Read on http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-57173868
Forensics: Amazing UFO-derived machines? Sensitive up to 75 miles? Forensic investigators develop tools they say can find bodies | wbir.com
News release from the Outer-Limits Forensic Institute. Available now on Ebay. Art Bohanan, a forensic investigator who created the device, gave it a simple name: The Human Remains Locator. — Read on http://www.wbir.com/article/tech/forensic-investigators-develop-tools-they-say-can-find-bodies/51-d509bd82-f821-41c2-93c0-019c5e64fc8f
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Forensics: Little Rock’s Reformist Black Police Chief Faces the Old Guard
Little different than independent crime lab directors getting hosed by their higher ups. Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties. — Read on theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/
Forensics: A national disaster: Mexican government says it can’t identify 52,000 corpses due to ‘forensic crisis’ | Daily Mail Online
As many as 31,000 of the 52,000 bodies that have not been identified by Mexican forensic units were recovered from mass graves between 2006 and 2019, and linked to the country’s war with cartels. — Read on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10347737/Mexican-government-says-identify-52-000-corpses-forensic-crisis.html
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Forensics: Ventura County deputy gets jail for tossing drug test
Richard Charles Barrios III, 29, will serve a year in jail after pleading guilty to throwing away a drug test proving a woman innocent, California prosecutors said. — Read on http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article256717752.html
Forensics: Punishment for going to trial results in this: Rogel Aguilera-Mederos Rejected a Plea Deal. So He Got 110 Years in Prison.
Colorado First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King said she pursued the punishment after Aguilera-Mederos insisted on his right to trial. — Read on reason.com/2021/12/22/rogel-aguilera-mederos-rejected-a-plea-deal-so-he-got-110-years-in-prison/
Forensics: Bar counsel wants harsher penalties and files Appeals over possible sanctions for 3 former drug lab prosecutors | WBUR News
This has gone on for years. Junk drug testing scandal has fallen onto prosecutors who kept it quiet. The Office of Bar Counsel is appealing proposed sanctions for the three former assistant attorneys general, arguing each should face harsher punishments. … Continue reading
Forensics: Man Who Spent 43 Years in Jail Receives $1M in Donations After Exoneration
The fundraiser quickly surpassed the million-dollar threshold in two days. — Read on http://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-strickland-who-spent-43-years-in-jail-receives-dollar1m-in-donations-after-exoneration
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