Category Archives: death penalty

Planned Texas execution under unprecedented US and international scrutiny. This article says why.

Posted on November 9, 2019 by csidds

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/08/rodney-reed-death-row-texas/

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Texas loves its executions but………………………………………………

Posted on August 17, 2019 by csidds

…………..the sometimes nefarious and commonly exaggerated forensic opinions prosecutors continue use to convict has little effect on the lofty judges who never took a science class after 12th grade. Their denials of legitimate claims of unfair criminal convictions is … Continue reading →

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Junk science vs DNA leads to law suit for compensation

Posted on August 1, 2019 by csidds

All this began with a “match” of one hair made during the heyday of this now discredited FBI crime fighting method. http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/indiana/20190801/man-sues-claiming-wrongful-conviction

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Taking hair comparisons to task in AZ – Should be 100’s of cases

Posted on June 25, 2017 by csidds

In another whack at the Jeff Sessions version of the inviolate status of police ‘forensics’, this article brings to light, a coalition of AZ crime labbers, DAs, the appellate court and a post-conviction org. It’s obvious that there is some … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Marks, Bitemarks, Crime lab scandal, death penalty, forensic science reform protecting the innocent | Tagged AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bad forensic science, FBI hair analysis errors, Forensic science, junk forensic science, Miscarriage of justice | Leave a comment

Anti-PCAST District Attorney Says Bitemark Analysis Opponents Are “Flawed”

Posted on November 18, 2016 by csidds

This National DA Assoc president works in San Bernardino County, among other things a place where bitemarks helped put an innocent Bill Richards in prison for 23 years. Ramos (campaigning for California’s Attorney General post and pro death penalty) has … Continue reading →

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Taking decades to uncover lost DNA: California will execute in 5 years

Posted on November 13, 2016 by csidds

Needle-in-a-haystack hunt for evidence in old Virginia murder case required endurance, luck But what may prove the toughest obstacle was overcome two years ago by a private investigator and a persistent University of Virginia Hospital employee who scaled warehouse ladders … Continue reading →

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Exonerations in the News: the myth of “worst of the worst”

Posted on November 4, 2016 by csidds

Justin Brooks and Brian Banks From the WrongfulConvictionsBlog Michigan Radio: Poor and black more likely to be wrongfully convicted… Star Tribune: Innocence Project questions Thomas Rhodes’ murder conviction in wife’s death near Spicer… Nebraska Radio Network: Kirk Bloodsworth brings his … Continue reading →

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The underbelly of science vs police science arguments in the News

Posted on October 12, 2016 by csidds

A former D.C. public defender has written an Op-Ed on Counterpunch.org titled, “Corrupted Evidence: How the Department of Justice is Blocking Forensic Evidence Reform” “Junk Science? —Legal Experts Slam Reliability of Much Forensic Evidence in Criminal Trials” (Ground Report) Thanks … Continue reading →

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Look into why #Prop66 is a load of prosecutorial crap – False confessions by kids after interrogations

Posted on September 2, 2016 by csidds

San Bernardino District Attorney @MichaelRamos stumps for California Prop 66. “One analysis of 44 proven false-confession cases revealed that more than a third of the interrogations lasted six to 12 hours, many lasted between 12 and 24 hours, and the … Continue reading →

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Texas Symposium on Exonerations, bad forensics, bad prosecutions and the death penalty.

Posted on July 8, 2016 by csidds

Anyone out there knowing a DA supporting the death penalty as a secure means of doling out proper justice in the US might do well to send him/her the information flyer showing the topics being discussed in Houston this August. … Continue reading →

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