Category Archives: forensic pathology

Forensics: “If You’re Lucky, It Could Be Days’: Maui Fire Forensic Expert Compares Painstaking Identification of Remains to 9/11 Aftermath

Dr. — Read on themessenger.com/news/maui-forensic-expert-identification-of-remains

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Forensics: Junk term ‘Excited Delirium’ Is No Excuse for Police Abuse

The National Association of Medical Examiners now says “excited delirium” should not be cited as a cause of death. — Read on reason.com/2023/06/27/excited-delirium-is-no-excuse-for-police-abuse/

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Forensics: Looking to speedup “overworked”coroners. Ignores investigative failures. Controversial coroner cremation bill sails through House committee – Louisiana Illuminator

A bill that would allow coroners to cremate bodies despite suspicious circumstances sailed through the end of a House committee Thursday. — Read on lailluminator.com/2023/05/25/controversial-coroner-cremation-bill-sails-through-house-committee/

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Forensics: Canine width of Bite marks on man prove death-row bear is innocent, say activists

The killing of a jogger in the Italian Alps by a brown bear has turned into a murder mystery after an animal rights group claimed that authorities had captured — Read on http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bite-marks-on-man-prove-death-row-bear-is-innocent-say-activists-z5hbjfktk

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Forensics: Excited delirium: junk science used to distract from police killings

This has been going on for decades. Largely to excuse excessive force used by police. Excited delirium: junk science used to distract from police killings – Halifax Examiner — Read on http://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/excited-delirium-junk-science-used-to-distract-from-police-killings/

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Forensics: Weak to fraudulent testimonies. Forensic Experts: Error, Bias, Incompetence and Criminality

One of the tasks of a good legal team is to analyse, question and contest forensic reports and evidence. — Read on http://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/forensic-experts-error-bias-incompetence-and-criminality/

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Forensics: Dr. Buck Ruxton 1930s murder case in the UK. Its a classic who-done-it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-64939242

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Forensics: Searchers for missing Oklahoma girl find remains of child

Alysia Adams later told investigators that Ivon Adams beat Athena Brownfield at about midnight Dec. 25, according to an affidavit. — Read on http://www.courttv.com/news/searchers-for-missing-oklahoma-girl-find-remains-of-child/

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Forensics: Resource challenges impact post-mortems as bodies pile up from murders, accidents | Jamaica

For 400 metres, the sight was pure horror. Chunks of human flesh, mangled, torn and pasted on the asphalt with blood that had gone muddy, littered the St Catherine leg of the North/South Highway. Initial reports were that the victim, … Continue reading

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Forensics: This story never changes. The official who investigates suspicious deaths in your town may be a doctor — or not

“A coroner doesn’t have to ever have taken a science class in their life,” said Nancy Belcher, chief executive officer of the King County Medical Society, the group that met that day. — Read on http://www.chicagotribune.com/people/health/death-investigations-20221225-nbnylwxifvhwpo5xckruxc2bc4-story.html

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