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Ex-prosecutor gets a suspension for “actions that took the criminal justice system to the abyss”
Let’s just say that the bromance between prosecutors who lie and the justice system rendering oversight to their misdeeds is as strong as ever. A Oklahoma man convicted of murder and placed on death row was later released based on … Continue reading
Posted in CSI, Wrongful Conviction
Tagged Fair Trial, falsified evidence, prosecutorial misconduct
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Exonerations of defendants accused by bitemark dentists grows to two dozen
The passage of time has dealt the remaining believers in bite mark identification a serious blow. When the Innocence Project (IP) published this wrongful list posted here, the numbers were rather few, considering the popularity of the method of using … Continue reading
Bite mark expert defends his methods as good for the court system without scientific validation
Use this as a counter-point to the recent Associated Press investigation on the failure of bite mark comparisons as a reliable forensic science. Over at the Bite Marks Evidence blog, David Averill posts this incredible video used in a 2011 … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: San Diego man talks about his case-ending exoneration
This is the first information regarding the comments from Uriah Courtney regarding his years in jail and attitude regarding his wrongful conviction. Another notable story is the CIP co-director Justin Brooks and a San Diego DA, Brent Neck’s comments about … Continue reading
DNA overturns CA conviction which relied on victim influenced by law enforcement
Above is a picture of Uriah Courtney walking out of prison into the arms of his parents. The California Innocence Project at Cal Western Law School is holding a press conference today on the outcome of their efforts to exonerate … Continue reading
Posted in CSI, Wrongful Conviction
Tagged ABFO, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Claim of Innocence, CSI, eye witness, unreliable
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Prosecutors trail of theories about defendant’s guilt in this case ranged from guilt to innocence over a 30 year period. In late 2011, Jackson County prosecutors working through cold cases sought testing for a very different reason: to find Nelson’s … Continue reading
Innocent and after spending 20 years in Illinois prison, Bennie Starks sues prosecution’s bitemark experts
Bennie Starks In a twist of fate, two Illinois dentists are being sued by Bennie Starks whom they determined, in a 1986 trial, left a bite mark on a rape victim. They claimed the bite mark as “medically certain” to … Continue reading
Posted in Bite Marks, Bitemarks, CSI, Forensic Dentistry, Forensic Science
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The use of DNA from bite marks takes casework, status and money from ABFO dentists
The AP article (use your search engine for “bite marks” and “unreliable”) in June 2013 suggested that the bite mark dentists of the American Board of Forensic Odontology have been “supplanted by the more reliable science of DNA.” More recently, … Continue reading
Bite mark experts sound desperate in AP review of bad forensic science
Well, the story had to come out eventually. The Associate Press extensive investigation into the US forensic dental organization, the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO), reviews their past mistakes in court cases and current denials of problems in their … Continue reading
PBS-2012 Nova Production On Doubtful Forensic Science
With major contributors from the forensic science community, this in-depth PBS presentation discusses the strengths and weaknesses of forensic examiners and their effects on the US judicial system. Erroneous convictions involving bite mark identification and other “impression evidence” are the … Continue reading
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