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Forensics: Despite exoneration cases debunking these opinions, all a judge needs is a bite mark, a forensic dentist, and a heinous murder: how junk science ruins innocent lives.
Charles McCrory has spent decades in prison for the murder of his wife, convicted on the strength of bite mark evidence. The problem? CSI-style forensics is bad science — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/forensics-bite-mark-junk-science-charles-mccrory-chris-fabricant
Forensics: False witness testimony and coerced confessions mixed with ‘Junk’ Forensic Science Lands Thousands of Innocents in Prison
The dawning realization that junk science might have put a vast number of innocent people behind bars has prompted the Innocence Project to widen the net of cases that it takes on. — Read on thecrimereport.org/2022/04/28/junk-forensic-science-lands-thousands-of-innocents-in-prison/
Forensics: Family awarded $1.5 million for wrongly being told family member had died
When Frankie Kerrigan showed up at his pall bearer’s house in Orange County back in May 2017, everyone was stunned. — Read on http://www.kcbd.com/2022/04/20/family-awarded-15-million-wrongly-being-told-family-member-had-died/
Forensics: CBS interview about faulty forensics. No research bitemarks leads the conversation with Chris Fabricant.
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Forensics: See Chris Fabricants new book! Ketanji Brown Jackson: why it matters for science that a former public defender could serve on the Supreme Court.
The author of a new book explains how junk evidence rules criminal trials. — Read on slate.com/technology/2022/04/ketanji-brown-jackson-forensic-science-public-defender.html
Forensics: More fakery. Former Pinellas County Forensic Science Specialist fired for falsifying documents, PCSO says
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Forensic Science Specialist was fired for falsifying forensic documents, a PCSO investigation revealed. — Read on http://www.fox13news.com/news/former-pinellas-county-forensic-science-specialist-fired-for-falsifying-documents-pcso-says
Forensics: DNA analyst accused of “cooking the books” in a murder case.
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Forensics: This jerk Alabama AG was a favorite DA of the #AAFS bitemarkers. Now he’s a Trumper.
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Forensicsy Mubai Report Nails Youth Who Bit Minor Girl
Bitemarkism alive and well in the subcontinent. A special POCSO court that convicted and sentenced a 22-year-old youth to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing a 17-year-old gir — Read on timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/odontologists-report-nails-youth-who-bit-minor-girl/articleshow/90384750.cms
Forensics: Unidentified remains. Mexico finds 17 bodies buried in backyards, patios
Volunteer searchers in northern Mexico led authorities to a series of grisly finds: 17 bodies or skeletal remains buried in the backyards and patios of houses in a low-income housing development. — Read on http://www.live5news.com/2022/03/14/mexico-finds-17-bodies-buried-backyards-patios/
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