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Forensics: A Dorito bag mistaken for a gun. How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions
Danger arises when law enforcement believes that AI models are retrieving certainties rather than generating likelihoods. — Read on theconversation.com/how-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-and-wrongful-convictions-281102
Forensics: Jimmie Duncan’s wrongful conviction used junk forensics experts. “The Cadaver King and and The Country Dentist.”
Great book on Amazon. Here’s a YT look at the case. youtu.be/PIT_kFtCZ7E
Forensics: Junk Medicine. Advocates Bash ‘Junk Science’ As Appeals Court Blocks Abortion Pill by Mail
Viagra as a death rate 10x greater. The fight over the use and distribution of the pill mifepristone has seeped into various courts around the country. — Read on http://www.newsweek.com/appeals-court-blocks-mifepristone-abortion-pill-mail-11905332
Forensics: Faked DNA. Legislation hoped to clear up the Missy Woods scandal. Defense attorneys are now overwhelmed with cases
When the police crime lab cooks their forensic results, the Defense Bar has to fix the fallout. A bill passed last year helped give defendants who were potentially impacted by misconduct more rights but also created some challenges. — Read … Continue reading
Forensics: Evidence. ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Commit
A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions. — Read on theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/
Forensics: The Shaken Baby Curse. Man sentenced to prison 26 years ago in infant’s death has case dismissed
A Denver man serving a life sentence after being convicted of killing a 4-month-old baby had his case dismissed on Tuesday due to new evidence that concluded the infant died of severe lung disease. — Read on http://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/denver-man-sentenced-to-prison-26-years-ago-in-death-of-4-month-old-has-conviction-erased
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Forensics: Junk bitemark cases from my past. All from LA and Missisippi. Documentary exposes junk science that sent man to death row.
BATON ROUGE – In 1998, Jimmie “Chris” Duncan was convicted of first-degree murder in the bathtub drowning of 23-month-old Haley Oliveaux and sent to death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. — Read on http://www.stmarynow.com/state/documentary-exposes-junk-science-sent-man-death-row
Forensics: Using the wrong execution meds saved his life. Richard Glossip’s Road Map to Nowhere | Yale Law Journal
While the Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Glossip v. Oklahoma was heralded as a victory for the defense, this Essay argues that the case is actually a road… — Read on yalelawjournal.org/essay/glossips-road-map-to-nowhere1
Forensics: Police Spent 16 Years Hunting a Serial Killer. Then They Discovered the Humiliating Scientific Truth.
The killer, who came to be known as the “Phantom of Heilbronn,” was actually the result of a critical forensic error. — Read on http://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/police-spent-16-years-hunting-123000246.html
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