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#Forensics When experts retaliate against scientific critics
This is just one very public example of desperate folks who dislike hearing colleagues legitimate opinions on forensic reform. Other examples are more sneaky. http://www.theagitator.com/2011/12/27/bite-mark-news/
#Forensics A story about science vs those who pretend science.
This is the case that destroyed the reputation of a forensic method long considered suspect outside the realm of the American Academy of Forensic Science. https://csidds.com/2014/05/01/ray-krones-exoneration-from-bitemark-evidence-the-inside-story-csidds/
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Time runs out for an innocent man trying to get compensation for 23 years in prison, plus Forensic News
1) The court system is quick to convict and interminably slow to correct prosecutorial mistakes and worse: The Watch @WPTheWatch We need to fix how we compensate the wrongly convicted. 2) A somewhat hilarious yet sadly true exposition on the civil … Continue reading
Good forensic science. Bad forensic science. Dangerous forensic science. Plus other stuff.
Today’s New York Times exclusive on the failure of bitemark identification resurging in a MS death penalty case. “Startling gap between “CSI” and certain forensic science.” PBS Nova program. KY: Prosecutor’s office focus of criticism from defendant. ADA lied to judge … Continue reading
FORENSICS: Time to Look Back 5 years. Scientific Status and NRC (NAS) Comments in “Identification from Bitemarks”
Nothing can more chilling than what is going on in forensics over the last 5 years. Certain national forensic organizations have and are still being investigated by US federal, Congressional or executive agencies or committees. Certain forensic disciplines are … Continue reading
Scientists create trepidation in certain forensic subjects. Target: Bitemarks
Here is a series of 2 posts by Dr. David Averill who is an ex-member and a past president (1995) of the dental bitemark group, the ABFO. His posts are from February 2011. They contain: 1) the effect of recent … Continue reading
Forensic Science Isn’t Science: Why juries hear—and trust—so much biased, unreliable, inaccurate evidence.
Excellent Op-ED from SLATE on this serious subject relating to US public safety and the US criminal justice system (CJS). Talks about wrongful executions, various types of cognitive biases and the lack of coordination between CJS, law enforcement and … Continue reading
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Bitemark case spurs judicial reform in CA., intimidation in forensics continues, + more
Forensic reform in California based in part on another bitemark case. 2011: Bitemark experts sue forensic lecturer regarding mention of Bennie Starks’ vacated conviction case. Later became a full exoneration when the DA dropped lesser remaining charges. The plantiffs in … Continue reading
More professional harassment of forensic experts, this time a pathologist. Plus political action spurred by bitemark case.
This is becoming commonplace. Another forensic expert gets job slammed for testifying against a Prosecutor’s “theory” of a case. CA: Prosecutors Suppress a Mountain of Evidence in Shaky Murder Case Read about other examples of professional harassment of forensic experts both … Continue reading
Who Pays the price for a False Forensic Identification? Plus Jack the Ripper is Backkkk , Cognitive Bias in Forensics.
When a forensic expert’s opinion on identification runs up against DNA. Who pays the price? http://bitemarks.org/ Expert testimony on eyewitness testimony allowed in state Supreme court. Experts on false confesses rejected. “the advent of DNA evidence, as well as hundreds of … Continue reading
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