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Georgia Chief ME steps down over double-dipping during state employment and strange testimony
This is really a messed up deal in Georgia. 60 yo forensic pathologist quits while under investigation. ================================= And this is what happens when non science police-derived “forensic methods” are really junk. “5 Investigates: Review of old forensic hair cases begins.” (Boston). “CPCS … Continue reading
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
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, CSI, exoneration, Forensic Science, forensic science reform
Tagged ADA, American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bitemarks, Criminal Justice, junk forensic science, wrongful convictions
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Altering the playing field of Forensic DNA statistics to bring major changes to criminal justice cases
The phrase “don’t mess with Texas” surely is true. The state’s Department of Public Safety Forensic Science Commission’s new stance on crime lab DNA mixture outcomes surely is going to bounce around the county like a flash bang grenade. … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, CSI, DNA mixtures, DNA profiling
Tagged Criminal Justice, CSI, DNA profiling, Forensic science
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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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The crumbling US criminal defense system – clients are 80% indigent – DAs get 4x more funding –
This data leads one to answer the question: “Why does the US leads in numbers and percentages of incarcerated populations?” Here’s another one: “Why are the numbers of exonerations increasing every year?” and so forth. By Tina Peng NEW ORLEANS The … Continue reading
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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Forensic dentist defends the Innocence Project against “Anti Forensic Science” AAFS/ABFO Accuser
The California Dental Association Journal, in its July 2015 publication presented a multi contributor article on forensic dentistry. Having good PR for the efforts of largely volunteer dentists doing human identification cases and being trained and available in mass disaster … Continue reading
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
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bite Marks, Civil rights, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice, CSI, death penalty
Tagged ABFO, American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Criminal Justice, discredited forensic science, falsified evidence, junk forensic science
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Deep into false forensic science from the FBI
Hair analysis ‘should be abolished,’ says wrongly incarcerated man 1978 Double murder. 37 years in prison. “He said that the pubic hair was microscopically similar to mine—microscopically similar.” Joseph Sledge was no saint, and the police knew it. Then … Continue reading
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