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Forensics: Costs of forensic expert witnesses in a murder trial with the defendant facing the death penalty.
Costs of forensic expert witnesses in a murder trial with the defendant facing the death penalty. Pathologist = $300/hr. Psychiatrist = $500/hr. “Mitigation specialist” = $100/hr. All have caps on maximum amount allowed. Ballistics: OC Crime Lab Goes 3D – … Continue reading
The personal dangers of protecting the innocent and underprivileged around the world : Similar issues exist in the US.
Civil rights and humanitarian legal advocacy is “The most dangerous job in law.” Prison, exile and worse exists around the world for legal advocates. These stories make the pushback in the US against forensic and judicial reform seem paltry in … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice, exoneration, forensic science reform, National FOrensic Science Commission, prosecutorial misconduct, Ray Krone bitemark case, William Richards Exoneration Case
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, forensic testimony, Miscarriage of justice, National Commission on Forensic Science, wrongful convictions
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Full text of judge’s resignation letter to US forsci commission
Read this. This plays to the politics behind the National Forensic Science Commission. The right to a fair trial and a fully informed defense takes another hit. The Commission is strongly composed of government employed forensic experts from the American … Continue reading
News Break : National Commission on Forensic Science member quits due to DOJ
Another addition to the growing list of questionable agenda and actions involving this Commission. Previous blogs at csidds.com talked about how the bitemark sub-committee, its chairman and its dentist members, are all adherents to the “shaky” forensic science of bitemark … Continue reading
Evidence tampering in the US crime lab system
This ex crime lab “scientist” took a very strange road much to the detriment of defendants’ rights of fairness and due process in court. http://www.adn.com/article/20150123/former-state-crime-lab-employee-pleads-guilty-theft-evidence-tampering
Hired to reform crime lab, new director gets slammed by cops
This storyline about pushback by police crime lab overseers is a classic example of retribution in action. http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/douglas-county-crime-lab-director-suspended-lab-work-reviewed/article_7169ae3a-1b81-5d4c-90c1-c4d951e947f8.html
Posted in criminal justice, CSI, forensic science reform
Tagged crime lab retribution
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Junk Forensic Science Shows Up at the 2015 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meeting – Again
Forensic science fails in specific controversial areas of wherein “classic” investigation methods, never brought forth by the scientific method, are still posing as “business as usual.”. Think of the “matches” you hear about on TV. Ignore DNA and Toxicology. This is … Continue reading
New Australian law on “new” forensic evidence releases man after 20rs in prison
Forensic opine by Patholgist at 1995 conviction appears to have been mere theory. Does that sound familiar? Unlike California Supreme Court’s recent pathetic statement that opinions on forensic evidence is “not true or false.” What a dumb legal basis to … Continue reading
14 year old executed in 1944 gets conviction tossed, Forensics reform, 1st A rights of a police chief takes a hit, and some forensic research
Forensic reform Statistics and the NIST Committee on forensic science. Apparently each working group (OSAC) gets its own stat person. “This subcommittee will focus on standards and guidelines related to examination of body fluids or tissues for the presence and quantity … Continue reading
Despite DNA, California Courts say Expert testimony is “merely an opinion” and “can’t be false”
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM This past year has been a tremendous success for the California Innocence Project on many fronts, from successes in the courtroom to increased media and public awareness of our cause and mission. 2014 also saw success in … Continue reading
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