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Federal Court Agrees: Prosecutors Can’t Keep Forensic DNA Evidence Secret from Defendants
An ongoing criminal court defense argument about DA refusal to disclose the prosecution-popular TrueAllele DNA software “code” is gaining judicial traction. When the government tries to convict you of a crime, you have a right to challenge its evidence. This … Continue reading
Forensics: Bitemark believer at the #AAFS2021 online conference carries on the myth.
Reading Richard Souviron always leaves me confused. What the heck. Is he saying bitemark patterns are still reliable means to direct the police investigations? I think so. What’s the error rate regarding your personal selection from your personal casework? 100%? … Continue reading
Forenscis: Syria ‘finds body of archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad beheaded by IS’
He died protecting his beloved Palmyra. Syria ‘finds body of archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad beheaded by IS’ – BBC News — Read on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-middle-east-55977964
Posted in AAFS, Crime, Forensic Science
Tagged cultural terrorists, murdered archaeologist, Palmyra
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Forensics: Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.
Apparently, high-school science is beyond the ken of these law school geniuses at the DOJ. They quack like little lame 🦆ies. Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts. — … Continue reading
Forensics: Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.
Apparently, high-school science is beyond the ken of these law school geniuses at the DOJ. They quack like little lame 🦆ies. Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts. — … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform, CSI, forensic evidence exaggeration, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, junk forensic science, US Crime labs
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Forensic science
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Forensics: A comparison of computed tomography, X‐ray and Lodox® scans in assessing pediatric skull fractures using piglets – Spies – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library
No magic bullet but actual cross-modality imagery testing is valuable. A comparison of computed tomography, X‐ray and Lodox® scans in assessing pediatric skull fractures using piglets – Spies – – Journal of Forensic Sciences – Wiley Online Library — Read … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, forensic pathology, Forensic Science
Tagged cranial injury imagery comparisons
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Forensics: Disparate legal standards. One for the rich, one for the poor. Georgia Offers Unequal Expert Evidence Standards
Guess who gets the benefit, and who gets the shaft. It is glaring proof that the two tier legal structure of rich vs poor really exists. The second proof is the inequitable funding of prosecutors, providing DAs with distinct advantages … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, Community Dentistry, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, Forensic Science, Forensic science misconduct, forensic science reform, junk forensic science, Medical errors, prosecutorial misconduct, US traitors, insurrection, US Capitol attacks
Tagged discriminatory legal standards for evidentiary admissibility
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Forensics: How Flawed Science of Bite-Mark Analysis Imprisoned a Man for Murder
A wide open look at the face of junk forensics from 2015. The bitemarkers now claim they are “new and improved.” They certainly will argue that myth at upcoming evidentiary hearings in 2 southern states of the US. It is … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, forensic evidence exaggeration, forensic fraud, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science
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Forensics: Round 2 soon coming your way. Council Concludes Bite-Mark Analysis Is Junk – The Intercept
This is from 2016. Then Trump eviscerated forensic science reform. Prosecutors, some crime lab ppl, and the FBI (Lynch and Sessions) all personally attacked the Obama admin’s (including Eric Lander and the “activist and conflicted” Innocence Project) multiple science commissions … Continue reading
Forensics: False theories on Covid. Legislator who questioned Black hygiene to lead health panel
This dope needs some remedial medical intervention. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportionately contracting the coronavirus because of their hygiene is… — Read on apnews.com/article/health-ohio-coronavirus-pandemic-0dd121777081707b4c061ed8e4649df6
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