Category Archives: Bitemarks

Forensics: False guilty pleas and marginalized defendants. New wrongful convictions database spurs hope of reforms, change in Canada

As the database launches there are 83 cases in it where a conviction was overturned, with only 16 of them involved Indigenous people. — Read on globalnews.ca/news/9499324/wrongful-convictions-database-reforms-change-canada/

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Forensics: “Cargo Cult”experts. We Need To Get Junk Science Out of Courtrooms

Forensic pseudoscience introduced into the courtroom has been used to convict and render death on people based on the thinnest of evidence. — Read on http://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/01/we-need-to-get-junk-science-out-of-courtrooms

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Forensics: Bitemarker now recants his own testimony. Not the first time.

http://www.investigatetv.com/2022/12/12/bite-mark-evidence-used-dozens-convictions-now-considered-junk-science-by-some/

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Flawed Forensics: Feds weigh in on bite mark analysis as several cases get new look

Flawed Forensics: Feds weigh in on bite mark analysis as several cases get new look — Read on http://www.fox19.com/video/2022/12/12/flawed-forensics-feds-weigh-bite-mark-analysis-several-cases-get-new-look/

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Forensics: Mostly Partial Prints and DUI Testing. The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science

When Henry Swofford stepped to the microphone at a gathering of forensic scientists in 2016, he surprised the audience when he announced that he had directed his investigators to no longer use the terms “identification” or “individualization” to link an … Continue reading

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Forensics: Rock ‘n’ molar: Bite marks on Steinway grand piano likely to have been made by Thomas Edison, who used to ‘hear through his teeth’

American inventor was known to pick up good vibrations in his skull — Read on http://www.musicradar.com/news/thomas-edison-bite-marks-steinway-piano

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Forensics: The history of DAs supporting junk science. A look back in time.

csidds.com/2016/12/09/are-we-in-the-twilight-zone-bitemarks-can-now-prove-innocence/

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Forensics: Awesome. Marvel chairman commits millions for Cardozo law school to fight faulty forensics.

From bite marks to blood spatter, a New York law school wants to train current and future attorneys about forensic evidence and the ways it can be misused in the courtroom. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/marvel-chairman-commits-millions-law-school-fight-faulty-forensics-2022-10-27/

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Forensics: From Egypt. CT scan used for bitemark comparison.

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Said-Elshama/publication/364359100_How_to_Apply_Virtual_Autopsy_in_Egypt/links/634faf4212cbac6a3ed841e9/How-to-Apply-Virtual-Autopsy-in-Egypt.pdf

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Forensics: I Told You So. Forensic Bitemark Analysis Not Supported by Sufficient Data, NIST Draft Review Finds | NIST

NIST scientific foundation reviews address issues of accuracy, reliability and validity in forensic science. — Read on http://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/10/forensic-bitemark-analysis-not-supported-sufficient-data-nist-draft-review

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