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Exonerations in the US : Another example of the Innocence Project Network’s Good Work
Michael Hanline’s Conviction Reversed – Release Expected Monday by MIKE SEMANCHIK on Nov 18, 2014 • 7:20 pm California Innocence Project Client’s Conviction Reversed After 36 Years Longest Wrongful Incarceration in California History – First of the California 12 To … Continue reading
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#Forensics and #Crim #Law : Self deluded US Federal courts and Prosecutors still ignore #Junk #Science
There is no better judicial micro-climate than Mississippi to study the self-contradictory and illegitimate misuse of unvalidated forensic opinions in the US. This story describes dubious forensic sciences experts and their untestable methods continuing to be used in courts. No … Continue reading
#Forensic #Science #Commission Pushbacks against Junk Forensic Experts
Progress is being made towards Forensic Science Reform. It has taken 5 years to get coordinated (but preliminary) recommendations from organized forensic practitioners since the 2009 NAS Report on “Strengthening Forensics Sciences.” The NAS slammed a fistful of long accepted forensic … Continue reading
Jack the Ripper DNA ID debunked by Sir Alec Jeffries : #Forensic #experts get sued in $30M wrongful conviction suit
In the world of 2014 forensic news, this story should endup in the top 10. A book writer’s chief science consultant to the claim ole Jack was the immigrant Kominski just took a hit from a number of scientific notables … Continue reading
Editorial on New York Times article about Faulty Bitemark Forensics
The September 15, 2014, New York Times exclusive on the failure of bitemark identification resurging in a MS death penalty case describes a botched bitemark method by one practitioner, that until 2013, was recognized by the forensic organization mentioned in the article. … Continue reading
Forensic News with some real strange events
Taking evidence interpretation to a whole new level: The lawyer who shot himself proving his case http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28805895 … Pure conjecture at this point: James Foley killer ‘unmasked’ by U.S. forensics http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/27/James-Foley-killer-unmasked-by-U-S-experts-.html … via @AlArabiya_Eng ?? about shooting = DOJ probe … Continue reading
It’s “Proper” Forensic Sci Week, FBI celebrates Dahmer case, and more
The article is here. Forensics | Gov. Pence Issues Proclamation Declaring “Proper” Forensic Science week. That is an interesting disclaimer. I guess its not “Improper” forensic science week. Uhm, there must be a story behind who writes for the governor … Continue reading
Top 9 examples of what junk forensic science is all about
Video Shows Controversial Forensic Specialist Michael West Fabricating Bite Marks via HuffPostCrime Australian grad student says she can narrow down bullet lead components to specific companies = 97% accuracy. So what? The FBI decommissioned “bullet lead” (actually a misnomer) a … Continue reading
FBI hair comparison fiasco proves non DNA innocence cases are viable, when forensic science advances
CSIDDS JUST ARRIVED AT 7,000 VIEWS. THANKS FOR FOLLOWING! There are some who think that only DNA testing after criminal convictions can generate an exoneration. Well, that is not exactly true. The FBI has admitted that their decades long use … Continue reading
Forensic Science White Wash: Why do US forensic associations continue to ignore the risks of more erroneous convictions ?
Answer: Its not in their agenda to admit mistakes and they most assuredly hate criticism. The National Commission on the Forensic Sciences is the effect of the AAFS and other groups in failing to initiate their own investigations of these … Continue reading
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