Category Archives: criminal justice

Forensics: Faked assailant. Famed Tennessee sheriff who inspired Hollywood movie ‘Walking Tall’ implicated in wife’s murder

Posted on September 1, 2025 by csidds

Famed Tennessee sheriff who inspired Hollywood movie ‘Walking Tall’ implicated in wife’s murder — Read on http://www.wsjm.com/2025/08/31/famed-tennessee-sheriff-who-inspired-hollywood-movie-walking-tall-implicated-in-wifes-murder/

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Forensics: NYPD, prosecutorial misconduct court settlement payouts exceed $77 million, Legal Aid report says

Posted on August 19, 2025 by csidds

NEW YORK — City taxpayers shelled out more than $77 million to settle lawsuits alleging police and prosecutorial misconduct and overturned convictions through the first six months of the year, according to a new report by the Legal Aid Society. … Continue reading →

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Forensics: Scandal-hit Queensland DNA lab repeats major testing error as rape victims wait over a year for results

Posted on August 4, 2025 by csidds

This all started in 2022. Someone is playing dirty with the evidence in urgent criminal cases. Damning review exposes ongoing issues at Forensic Services Queensland, including failure to properly test sample from violent unresolved crime — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/forensic-services-qld-queensland-dna-lab-ntwnfb

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Forensics: Police custody deaths under independent review.

Posted on July 21, 2025 by csidds

87 restraint Police custody deaths from Maryland Medical Examiner office investigated for coverup https://open.substack.com/pub/radleybalko/p/new-study-state-medical-examiners?r=j5102&utm_medium=ios

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Forensics: Shady dealing Oklahoma Attorney General Accused in New Court Filings of Reneging on Plea Agreement in Richard Glossip’s Case

Posted on July 18, 2025 by csidds

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is fac­ing accu­sa­tions that he broke a writ­ten agree­ment that would have freed for­mer death row… — Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/oklahoma-attorney-general-accused-in-new-court-filings-of-reneging-on-plea-agreement-in-richard-glossips-case

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Forensics: A legal scholar’s look at HHS and ICE tyrannical crimes.

Posted on June 14, 2025 by csidds
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Forensics: Rape victim who is a CO politician pushes for new bill to counteract disfunctional state DNA lab.

Posted on May 4, 2025 by csidds

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/proposal-to-address-colorado-bureau-of-investigations-woes-heads-to-state-house/article_17750a3d-ae0d-4334-b1b0-74f7688701ee.html

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Forensics: The quagmire of law enforcent agencies leads to poor quality control and standards in forrensic services. There are 18000 separate cop shops in the US. Article by Professor Max Houck.

Posted on April 17, 2025 by csidds

https://open.substack.com/pub/maxhouck/p/the-juridictional-problem-in-forensic?r=j5102&utm_medium=ios

Posted in AAFS, Civil rights, costs of wrongful convictions, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, forensic evidence exaggeration, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science reform | Leave a comment

Forensics: Major reason DEI attempts to correct law enforcement and judicial injustices.

Posted on April 12, 2025 by csidds

https://eji.org/news/black-americans-nearly-eight-times-more-likely-to-be-wrongfully-convicted-of-murder/

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Forensics: Why firearm opinions are subjective. Its not like CSI TV shows. In fact, its hard to call it a science.

Posted on April 11, 2025 by csidds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.70047?af=R

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