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Forensics: Toolmark “matching to the exclusion of all other tools” takes a hike. DA files motion to dismiss murder charges in 1991 pipe bombings
The Mesa County district attorney is moving to dismiss murder charges against the man who was convicted of killing two people in a series of 1991 Grand Junction pipe bombings rather than go to a retrial. — Read on http://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/mesa-county-da-files-motion-to-dismiss-murder-charges-against-man-convicted-in-1991-pipe-bombings
Forensics: Junk forensics. Hair. Hawaii man fights 34-year-old rape conviction based on debunked forensics
A bombshell 2009 report suggested widespread errors in the FBI’s crime labs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to convictions over potentially scientifically unsound evidence. — Read on http://www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-man-fights-34-year-old-rape-conviction-based-on-debunked-forensics/
Forensics: Capital case appeals show procedural and evidentiary mistakes by prosecutors. Executions by states doubled in 2025, with Florida accounting for largest share.
Google Gemini and ChatGPT. — Read on lasvegassun.com/news/2026/jan/04/executions-by-states-doubled-in-2025-with-florida/
Forensics: Court orders tRump government to reissue national health data. 🧪
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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
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/
Forensics: Yet the #AAFS still endorses the org that personally attacked Dr. Mary Bush. Tools of dental professor’s bitemark research included in Smithsonian exhibition
Tools of dental professor’s bitemark research included in Smithsonian exhibition – University at Buffalo — Read on http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2024/06/Mary-Bush-bitemark-research-Smithsonian.html
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Forensics: Tell the Bitemark ABFO one “study” does not define a “science.” Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science | Evolution News
This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” — Read on evolutionnews.org/2024/07/three-genuine-tells-of-junk-science/
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