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Another DA uninterested in protecting the public
This Prosecutor would rather put public safety at risk having the real criminal still at large than allowing a simple DNA test to prove or deny his office made a mistake. A real chickenshit move http://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2015/01/08/prosecutors-fight-dna-test-rape-case/21471157/
Posted in criminal justice, Wrongful Conviction
Tagged DNA testing objection, forensics
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How Police run Crime Labs can keep their employees in line: More on retaliation in forensic sciences
Suit charges “retaliation for opinions about the lab” – Ex-Police lab director sues supervisors over demotion – Other types of professional retaliation relating to forensic science. here and here. When a man is wrongfully arrested…….Jailed 12 days, man proves his mistaken … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, criminal justice, forensic science misconduct
Tagged Forensic science
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Allegations of Crime Lab planting evidence may not be enough for reversal of conviction
Planted evidence from a Crime lab (the OJ defense) is not the magic bullet for everyone arguing innocence. Forensic misconduct charges before Nebraska higher court affecting a murder case. Legal argument from the DA says “eyewitness” evidence is sufficient to sustain life … Continue reading
Slap Shot At Over Blown Forensic Experts
Forensic Science Is Not CSI, in Ferguson or Anywhere Else – HuffPost Politics http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6356740?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics&partner=skygrid
Judge tosses out two types of DNA evidence used regularly in criminal cases
Judge tosses out two types of DNA evidence used regularly in criminal cases – Forensics in Focus EXCLUSIVE: Justice Mark Dwyer has ditched the results of low copy number DNA testing and Forensic Statistical Tool from the cases of Andrew … Continue reading
New strategy in exoneration litigation: The Nullification of Innocence
Nothing is ever over in exoneration litigation, be it from exonerees’ difficulties in re-entering society, or when some DAs and police, with help from their lawyers, continue to chase after the men and women who have wrongfully endured imprisonment from … Continue reading
Illinois police dept and experts’ defense theory attempts to thwart legally innocent man’s compensation suit.
Let nothing surprise you when lawyers are involved in opposing litigation involving wrongful conviction disputes. There is a civil case in Illinois, that has an exonerated man, Bennie Starks, suing the Waukegan police department and their 2 member panel of … Continue reading
“Worst miscarriages of justice in British law from grossly misleading forensic science” – Scotland
“Some of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history have come from cases in which the forensic science was later shown to have been grossly misleading.” Media Hype Typical second-hand and incorrect quotation regarding a Science article on … Continue reading
US Exonerations at a Record High; Cost of one wrongful conviction from 1992 is $4.75 million while others go without
The continuing end game for the people erroneously convicted (usually for homicide) and released after decades in prison continues to be clouded. One man in New York gets $4.75 million. NYC paid another man $10 million in April, 2014. US exonerations … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, DNA profiling, wrongful convictions
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New Australian law on “new” forensic evidence releases man after 20rs in prison
Forensic opine by Patholgist at 1995 conviction appears to have been mere theory. Does that sound familiar? Unlike California Supreme Court’s recent pathetic statement that opinions on forensic evidence is “not true or false.” What a dumb legal basis to … Continue reading
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