Category Archives: Exoneration costs

Forensics: Just released after 25 years on death row. Jimmie Duncan going home A bitemark quack dentist put him in prison.

Posted on November 21, 2025 by csidds

The 2009 expose’ of this case from journalist Radley Balko. We have spent decades on this case. https://reason.com/2009/03/24/forensics-fraud/

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Forensics: Why Bitemarks are Junk. No Scientific foundation. Great vids of flawed methods.

Posted on October 8, 2025 by csidds

Read more on Flawed Forensics: Feds weigh in on bite mark analysis as several cases get new look at https://www.kalb.com/video/2022/12/12/flawed-forensics-feds-weigh-bite-mark-analysis-several-cases-get-new-look/

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Forensics: Major reason DEI attempts to correct law enforcement and judicial injustices.

Posted on April 12, 2025 by csidds

https://eji.org/news/black-americans-nearly-eight-times-more-likely-to-be-wrongfully-convicted-of-murder/

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Forensics: High murder rates, cheating cops, and reluctant judges lead to bad results. DAs guard against new evidence “like Spartans defending Thermopylae.”

Posted on April 8, 2025 by csidds
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Forensics: Despite holding the record for exonerations from its death row. FL adds to factors allowing for death sentences.

Posted on April 2, 2025 by csidds
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Forensics: The 40 year history of cheating police crime lab “scientists” in the US. No oversight from lab directors. The latest case has CBI chief being allowed to retire. Chilling.

Posted on March 16, 2025 by csidds

https://denvergazette.com/colorado-watch/drug-laboratory-irregularities-massachusetts-oklahoma/article_edd6fe4a-0069-11f0-8fc1-bf081f5d30ff.html

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Forensics: Video look at a crime lab tech who is charged w 102 counts of fakery and 10,000 cases to review.

Posted on March 6, 2025 by csidds
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Forensics: Massive police crime lab scandal in Colorado. Faked DNA results affects hundreds of cases.

Posted on January 25, 2025 by csidds

https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/01/23/dna-test-fraud-colorado/

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Forensics: Prosecutors give excuses and denials for wrongful convictions.

Posted on January 17, 2025 by csidds

Forensics: False conviction lawsuits creates a blame game between cops and prosecutors. Typical. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/allan-woodhouse-brian-anderson-lawsuit-defence-1.7433555

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Forensics: Welcome to the world of justice delayed and wrongful convictions. Forensic science failures persist as labs fail to adopt standards

Posted on November 18, 2024 by csidds

Forensic science has deadly stakes, but half of the largest labs in the U.S. haven’t adopted federal standards, including for DNA tests and guns. — Read on http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/11/18/forensic-science-crime-lab-police-dna-test/75823347007/

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