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Category Archives: Bitemarks
Bitemarker now claims to be “technical” expert to avoid courtroom scrutiny.
The ABFO bitemark mouthpiece of legal wisdom lays a new egg within this WaPo article continuing news about the 26th exoneration from junk dental testimony. He espouses a strange brew of bitemark admissibility that leaves judges out of the role … Continue reading
Dallas man released at exoneration hearing
The judge baked a pumpkin pie before vacating his 25 year old conviction and incarceration. The dentist responsible says his “science” has changed. There never was any science. http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/dallas-county-man-freed-after-serving-25-years-for-murder-over-faulty-science-of-bite-marks.html/
Another bitemarker admits his 1989 “1 to a million” ID opinion was junk.
Bite analysis cited in bid to free man in Dallas killings This exoneration litigation has a hearing today [Monday October 12, 2015] in Dallas. This makes the second bitemark dentist in two weeks to recant his own testimony. This new dentist, … Continue reading
More scapegoat activities in forensics: DAs who hate old DNA : a Medical Examiner with x-ray vision
NEWS BREAK: Another Forensic Scapegoat case. Last December, New York State Police forensic scientists were accused of cheating on a yet unused DNA software exam. The test maker had encouraged takers to confer during the test prep stage which included … Continue reading
Another bitemark-based conviction overturned. Dentist calls original testimony “junk.”
This is the 25th conviction or incarceration aided by dental bitemark experts that has been overturned or dismissed in the US. How many more are there? The bitemark organization, the ABFO, is deaf and dumb and lying to the State … Continue reading
Vivid case of child-to-child bitemark activity according to police in San Antonio, TX
Being able to reliably determine a skin injury can be diagnosed as a human bitemark is often a point of confusion and disagreement for forensic bitemark people and ER nurses and docs. . This case goes beyond that as police … Continue reading
Fighting Forensic Junk Science taking place in Dallas Texas: Let’s talk science not quackery, promises and lies
In response to chilling mistakes and misdeeds involving the execution of Todd Willingham and the 25 year false incarceration of Michael Morton, things are changing regarding forensic experts in one US state. It is note worthy that nearly 50% (154 … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, CSI, exoneration, Forensic Science, forensic science reform
Tagged ADA, American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bitemarks, Criminal Justice, junk forensic science, wrongful convictions
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“Top 5 Junky Forensic ‘Sciences,’ or, ‘Why are forensics under fire now?’ “
The veteran law enforcement, law and science blogger at Grits for Breakfast’ in TX has some sharp points to make about his picks for the worst in forensic methods. There are more than just bitemark “interpreters” which he includes in this list. … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bitemarks, criminal justice reform, CSI, DNA mixtures
Tagged bitemark evidence, Criminal Justice, CSI, DNA profiling, FBI Crime Lab, junk forensic science
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From the Archives: U.S. Mississippi Death Row Case Faults Bite-Mark Forensics
By ERIK ECKHOLM SEPT. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES In one of the country’s first nationally televised criminal trials, of the smirking serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida in 1979, jurors and viewers alike were transfixed as dental experts showed how … Continue reading
Forensic dentist defends the Innocence Project against “Anti Forensic Science” AAFS/ABFO Accuser
The California Dental Association Journal, in its July 2015 publication presented a multi contributor article on forensic dentistry. Having good PR for the efforts of largely volunteer dentists doing human identification cases and being trained and available in mass disaster … Continue reading
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