Category Archives: death penalty

Forensics: DA misconduct. Death row inmate says he’s facing execution based on lying jailhouse snitch’s word

Posted on October 24, 2020 by csidds

All due to one career prolifict prison snitch. James Dailey says he may be executed without physical, eyewitness evidence — Read on abcnews.go.com/amp/US/death-row-inmate-facing-execution-based-lying-jailhouse/story

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Forensics: San Jose man not guilty in death-penalty child killing case

Posted on June 22, 2020 by csidds

Its all about DNA mixture software interpretation. Sound familiar? San Jose man not guilty in death-penalty child killing case — Read on http://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/19/death-penalty-case-jury-finds-san-jose-man-not-guilty-in-2016-child-killing/amp/

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Forensics: Trump, the USDoJ and prosecutors have put a clamp on forensic science reform.

Posted on April 13, 2020 by csidds

This article reveals how the reemergence of status quo government control of scientific review has overwhelmed state and US efforts to eradicate junk and outdated forensic practices. Dan Delgar at the NY Innocence Project explains how the effect of forensic … Continue reading →

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Forensics: Another lesson on not trusting convictions. 42,000 pages of undisclosed evidence

Posted on January 8, 2020 by csidds

Another chapter about rigged prosecutions ending in a death sentence. The blame lies with DAs and the police. A new DA led to this new review. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-exoneration-christopher-williams-theophalis-wilson-20200106.html

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Forensics: Another lesson on not trusting convictions. 42,000 pages of undisclosed evidence

Posted on January 8, 2020 by csidds

Another chapter about rigged prosecutions ending in a death sentence. The blame lies with DAs and the police. A new DA led to this new review. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-da-larry-krasner-exoneration-christopher-williams-theophalis-wilson-20200106.html

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#Forensics: More bitemarker brilliance. Keith Harward column: Innocence reason enough to abolish the death penalty | Columnists | richmond.com

Posted on December 23, 2019 by csidds

Keith Harward column: Innocence reason enough to abolish the death penalty | Columnists | richmond.com — Read on http://www.richmond.com/opinion/columnists/keith-harward-column-innocence-reason-enough-to-abolish-the-death/article_27522f49-4864-57d2-b2a5-b83c235203ad.amp.html

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Forensics: A compendium on the failure of the US death penalty. 

Posted on December 3, 2019 by csidds

On societal, legal and moral grounds. By Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith.  https://theintercept.com/series/the-condemned/

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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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