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Forensics: When Expert Witnesses Are the Problem. Looking at bad science and good science misleading judges and juries.
How do we stop the misrepresentation of science in the courtroom? — Read on http://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/202201/when-expert-witnesses-are-the-problem
Forensics: The Innocence Projects’ plans for its next 30 years.
innocenceproject.org/in-the-vanguard-of-justice-reform-the-road-ahead/
Forensics: First Black female in Tennessee. A 74-Year-Old Black Woman Gets Exonerated After Spending 28 Years in Prison
Joyce Watkins was granted parole in 2015, but she immediately began taking steps towards clearing her name and getting her 1988 conviction overturned. — Read on http://www.complex.com/life/black-woman-exoneration-prison-innocence
Forensics: Police used fake DNA reports during interrogations, Virginia attorney general says
Im sure they fake other forensic “data” as a SOP. Virginia Beach police used forged documents that linked people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess or cooperate with investigators, Virginia’s outgoing attorney general said. — Read on … Continue reading
Forensics: experts weigh in on DC crime lab’s next steps
Its still politicians vs scientists at this lab in DC. The team of forensic experts advising prosecutors about the troubled D.C. crime lab are urging against District officials’ plan to reinstate some divisions of the agency quickly. — Read on … Continue reading
Forensics: False/misleading forensics compose 24% of wrongfully convicted nation wide. Michiganders have lost more than 1,415 years of freedom
Deniers of these stats blame the lawyers. Wrongful convictions have led to Michiganders spending at least 1,417 years in prison. Nationwide, exonerees have lost at least 26,289 years to prison. — Read on http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/wrongfully-convicted-michiganders-have-lost-more-than-1415-years-of-freedom
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Forensics: Police forensic expert jailed after 3,000 crime scene and post-mortem images found on personal computer
Makes me wonder about forensic images saved for kecturing purposes. Darren Collins, 56, illegally accessed images, including those of murder victims, over a four-year period — Read on http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-dead-body-photos-jailed-b1990056.html
Forensics: Lawyer for wrongfully convicted Earl Washington Jr. sues Virginia for withholding lab records
An attorney for Earl Washington Jr., who came within days of being executed in Virginia for a murder he didn’t commit, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against a https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/lawyer-for-wrongfully-convicted-earl-washington-jr-sues-virginia-for-withholding-lab-records/article_9437c8b7-5d4a-52f5-9139-dac8db37cef0.html
Forensics: Opinion | Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated – The Washington Post
Bitemark stories from my casebook. The number of experts who can claim to have sent two innocent men to death row is pretty small. Michael West did it in a week. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/sherwood-brown-exonerated-michael-west/
Forensics: Little Rock’s Reformist Black Police Chief Faces the Old Guard
Little different than independent crime lab directors getting hosed by their higher ups. Keith Humphrey was brought in to reform a department riven by race. His opponents accused him of bias and sexual improprieties. — Read on theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/
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