Category Archives: Crime
Crime lab mess redux: Now it’s Alaska’s $90M boondoggle
These stories just keep coming ……. It seems the public’s confidence in the “theory(ies) of crime detection” appears to be eroding from top ( governmental PCAST deniers) to the bottom. Take your pick on the bottom. Wanna try “Making a … Continue reading
Fentanyl-like drugs are pouring in primarily from China, U.S. officials say
This is a real war on drugs being fought at the DEA and forensic crime labs. Fentanyl is 50 stronger than heroin. San Francisco Chronicle.
Posted in Crime, CSI, forensic toxicology
Tagged DEA forensics, fentanyl, US opioid deaths
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Here we go again. New appeal case. Waukegan. Dead baby. “Missed evidence.” Kathleen Zellner
Another example how weak physical evidence relating to COD, the baby’s prior medical history, the DA and Def atty’s fumblings, a courthouse with cops’ history of witness coercion with wrongful convictions, and a “new statement” from the DA’s pathologist, brings … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, CSI, expert testimony, forensic pathology
Tagged Forensic science, Miscarriage of justice, wrongful convictions
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Forensic Anthro in Central Park
Professor Angelique Corthals of the Department of Sciences set up a crime scene in the composting area of the park near the 102nd street entrance after receiving a permit from the Central Park Conservancy to perform the exercise. “The permit process took … Continue reading
Forensics: Can DNA predict a face? Courtroom application years away. Police buy it anyway.
Descriptive but not an over enthusiastic prediction of a novel attempt to revolutionize the future of “fighting crime.” The writer properly spells out the commercially developed DNA method as “skimpy” on validity. “In truth, the science for conjuring a person’s … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, Crime, CSI, DNA profiling
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Criminal Justice, CSI, Forensic science
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Editorial: Taking another bite out of junk science in the Texas criminal justice system
“In numerous instances, experts diverge widely in their evaluations of the same bite mark evidence, which has led to questioning of the value and scientific objectivity of such evidence.” The Dallas Daily News
DNA tech’s reference semen DNA or sloughed skin shows up in 2014 super sensitive profile of 1984 murder case
Police used a lie detector on an over cooperating retired crime lab tech to concoct a “confession” that is nothing of the sort. This story is dominated by overarching confidence from San Diego law enforcement that “DNA always gets our … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, criminal justice, CSI, DNA mixtures
Tagged botched police theories, crime labs, Forensic science
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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
Posted in AAFS, costs of wrongful convictions, Crime, criminal justice, CSI, DNA profiling, exoneration, forensic pathology, Forensic Science, junk forensic science
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Bad forensic science, Claim of Innocence, Forensic science, wrongful convictions
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“Point of Action” rapid DNA presents major lack of safeguards
These decidedly un-literary PR pieces from DNA companies boggle the mind regarding what they don’t say about reliability safeguards during the use of their “printer sized” machines located at the aptly named CSI style ” point of action.” Maybe they … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, criminal justice, CSI
Tagged DNA profiling, FBI Crime Lab, Forensic science
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