Category Archives: costs of wrongful convictions

Forensics : “Outsiders from New York causing problems” in Oklahama and elsewhere

This is not a re run of “Anatomy of a Murder.” Law enforcement protectors in Tulsa are irate that 1) they recently had to pay out $8 million to a wrongly convicted African-American and 2) those damned exoneration litigators from … Continue reading

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Grass roots effort to improve justice in 3 Mississippi Counties : Voters and Exoneration Documentary

  Carrington Op-ed From Mississippi The Dispatch What the esteemed MS Law Professor and MS Innocence Project director Tucker Carrington (pictured above) does not say in his opinion piece urging voters to elect a new DA (long term Forrest Allgood is the incumbent and a … Continue reading

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Innocence Project investigators uncover cache of bitemark cases suppressed by the bite-mark believers

All this started about two months ago. While denying scientific realities and protocols combined with a history of damaging the US criminal justice system, the AAFS/ABFO recently powered up to oppose Texas looking into their dental courtroom activities. The Forensic Science Commission was made in 2013 … Continue reading

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A hunt for bitemark cases in TX : Help the TX Forensic Sci Commission find the ABFO hidden casework

, This is a lapel button representing the”Ouija Board of Forensic Odontology” (from the Ray Krone Family). They are paroding the ABFO bitemark bunch. The latest on the cynical attitude of some in the American Board of Forensic Odontology is … Continue reading

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Forensic scandal of bitemark believers widens from horrible to worse. If that’s even possible.

The status of the American  Board of Forensic Odontology sinks further into the swamp of discredit as the number of wrongful bite aided mis identifications in criminal cases increases to 26 in the United States. Plus the State of Texas … Continue reading

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Indiscriminate police use of private DNA databases makes a mess for innocent people.

I can’t wait to hear how law enforcement tries to clean up this seemingly uncontrolled use of personal genetic material over 1 million customers have sent to familial DNA companies like Ancestry.com. “Anyone who knows the science understands that there’s … Continue reading

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Its time for CA to stand up to junk forensic science in its courts #XONR8

Justin Brooks ‏ JerryBrownGov  AG Kamala Harris A former prosecutor Judge found Bill Richards innocent 6 years ago! FreeTheCA12  XONR8 http://californiainnocenceproject.org/read-their-stories/william-richards/  

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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

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New efforts to ID Pearl Harbor victims, the “excitement of delirium” and other Forensic Notes, some strange others tragic.

After a 1947 internment from the battleship Oklahoma, skeletal remains experience new ID attempts.  North Carolina has two newly compensated exonerees. 30 years in prison while innocent of murder. Once again, false confessions prove to be largely coerced from vulnerable … Continue reading

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Fabrication of bitemark evidence by dentists not proven according to 7th Circuit dismissal of Stinson civil suit

“Fabricated opinion evidence, for which the expert might not have qualified immunity, must be both wrong and known to be wrong by the expert,” Sykes explained (an appellant judge recently wrote this in WI). Its quite clear in Wisconsin that … Continue reading

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