Category Archives: forensic fraud

Forensics: Jimmie Duncan’s wrongful conviction used junk forensics experts. “The Cadaver King and and The Country Dentist.”

Great book on Amazon. Here’s a YT look at the case. youtu.be/PIT_kFtCZ7E

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Forensics: Faked DNA. Legislation hoped to clear up the Missy Woods scandal. Defense attorneys are now overwhelmed with cases

When the police crime lab cooks their forensic results, the Defense Bar has to fix the fallout. A bill passed last year helped give defendants who were potentially impacted by misconduct more rights but also created some challenges. — Read … Continue reading

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Forensics: Evidence. ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Commit

A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions. — Read on theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/

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Forensics: The Shaken Baby Curse. Man sentenced to prison 26 years ago in infant’s death has case dismissed

A Denver man serving a life sentence after being convicted of killing a 4-month-old baby had his case dismissed on Tuesday due to new evidence that concluded the infant died of severe lung disease. — Read on http://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/denver-man-sentenced-to-prison-26-years-ago-in-death-of-4-month-old-has-conviction-erased

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Forensics: Junk bitemark cases from my past. All from LA and Missisippi. Documentary exposes junk science that sent man to death row.

BATON ROUGE – In 1998, Jimmie “Chris” Duncan was convicted of first-degree murder in the bathtub drowning of 23-month-old Haley Oliveaux and sent to death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. — Read on http://www.stmarynow.com/state/documentary-exposes-junk-science-sent-man-death-row

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Forensics: Science. Replication is nearly impossible. The Ethics of Junk Science: It’s Time for a Reboot

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. That mechanism is broken. — Read on petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/04/15/the-ethics-of-junk-science-its-time-for-a-reboot/

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Forensics: AI radiology image deep fakes get tested. It doesn’t look good for telemedicine.

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Forensics: Election Law. MAGA Sheriff in CA seizes 650,000 November 2025 ballots to pursue his own “election fraud” investigation. He is also a candidate for CA governor.

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Forensics: Deposition video. How DOGE staffers identified DEI programs for defunded government instittitional research and programs. They used ChatGPT.

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Forensics: Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these chatbots (LLMs) are willing to commit academic fraud.

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds. — Read on http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9

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