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The truth comes out in #ONR8 David McCallum’s NYC case plus Don’t self medicate and then testify in criminal court
Forensics expert ‘had been on medication’ in the witness box. When a DA and a judge obstruct DNA testing, it doesn’t matter if you are innocent, you stay in prison. Forensic experts under major UK scrutiny. Are juries being blinded … Continue reading
Pushback from the bitemark believers denies bad cases can happen today. Total bs. Their keepers need to wake up.
The bitemark experts once AGAIN, promise that they will do better. Read the following recent website posting from their head honcho. As usual, nothing about where all his newly found reliability comes from. Maybe its his below-mentioned “Tree” system? All the … Continue reading
Eyewitness IDs : The Main cause of Wrongful Convictions gets a do-over by the National Research Counsel
After decades of legal and more recent research on doubtful eyewitness testimony has led to this Report from the NRC/NAS. The best reads on this type of “evidence” used by prosecutors are: 1) Professor Brandon Garrett’s “Convicting the Innocent.” 2) … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Forensic science, forensic testimony
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SpaghettiO caper, Battles over Forensics, Public Policy efforts and wrongful convictions
In California, another bill involving a valiant attempt to prevent the strong correlation of prosecutorial misconduct (in over 800 cases, only less than a 2 handfusl have led to Bar sanctions against state prosecutors) and wrongful convictions was vetoed this … Continue reading
Time runs out for an innocent man trying to get compensation for 23 years in prison, plus Forensic News
1) The court system is quick to convict and interminably slow to correct prosecutorial mistakes and worse: The Watch @WPTheWatch We need to fix how we compensate the wrongly convicted. 2) A somewhat hilarious yet sadly true exposition on the civil … Continue reading
Good forensic science. Bad forensic science. Dangerous forensic science. Plus other stuff.
Today’s New York Times exclusive on the failure of bitemark identification resurging in a MS death penalty case. “Startling gap between “CSI” and certain forensic science.” PBS Nova program. KY: Prosecutor’s office focus of criticism from defendant. ADA lied to judge … Continue reading
Forensics : Prosecutorial misconduct, exonerations and the Politics of Criminal Justice
From the Wrongful Convictions blog: “Prosecutorial arrogance and tunnel vision” plus more CJ and its politics http://wp.me/p2224n-4NX via @WrongConvBlog Not another one! But the best version I’ve read about this serial case from the 1880’s. “Forensic Scientist Claims To … Continue reading
#Disputed : #Ferguson Policeman Darren Wilson received injuries during encounter with #Michael #Brown: Facial Fractures
Forensic aspects of the Mike Brown officer-involved shooting predominate this post. Georgia officials refuse to pay $800K medical expenses of toddler injured by a grenade in fruitless SWAT raid. Effort by US DOJ in Mike Brown shooting actually unprecedented in … Continue reading
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Just what IS ‘malicious prosecutorial misconduct? How about “criminally negligent?” Plus more on #Forensic #Science
Brooklyn 36-win 0-loss DA getting heat for a mega-list of alleged misconduct thats ugly but probably not “malicious” http://nydn.us/1mDXPLk Here’s what “non malicious” prosecutors are all about. They are “negligent.” How about “criminally negligent? See next. “altho committing misconduct, the … Continue reading
It’s “Proper” Forensic Sci Week, FBI celebrates Dahmer case, and more
The article is here. Forensics | Gov. Pence Issues Proclamation Declaring “Proper” Forensic Science week. That is an interesting disclaimer. I guess its not “Improper” forensic science week. Uhm, there must be a story behind who writes for the governor … Continue reading
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