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Forensics: Junk science kills. Texas’ declines to stop execution in Roberson shaken baby syndrome case | The Week
A Texas man lost his final appeal to avoid execution, based on a conviction his lawyers say is based on debunked junk science. — Read on theweek.com/law/texas-execution-shaken-baby-syndrome
A Forensic Tragedy: Texas Man Faced Execution Based on Junk Shaken Baby Myth
After Roberson’s conviction, the DA “expert” recanted his opinion that the baby’s death was a homicide. Kudos to Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith for this investigative journalism in The Intercept. The TX AG Paxton refuses to apply the Tx Junk … Continue reading
Forensics: How forensic dentists ruin innocent lives
I have co-existed with these dentists for decades. Some are sincere and thoughtful. Others are raging egotists. None are trained as a “scientist .” The outrageous cases like McCrory’s (see the link below) over the last 2 decades have led … Continue reading
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Forensics: Only “New Evidence” Allows $$$. Lieing cops and DAs don’t count. Why is Michigan Failing to Compensate the Wrongly Convicted? — ProPublica
The state can provide the wrongfully convicted compensation of $50,000 for each year of incarceration, but the law’s narrow criteria and confusion over eligibility leave former prisoners facing another system that seems stacked against them. — Read on http://www.propublica.org/article/why-michigan-failing-compensate-wrongly-convicted-despite-law
Forensics: A Trail of Tears. How the Junk Science of Hair Analysis Keeps People Behind Bars – Mother Jones
Each of these cases takes years to litigate and $ defendants don’t possess. The technique, developed before DNA testing, can’t definitively tie suspects to crime scenes. Try explaining that to juries — or some judges. — Read on http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/how-the-junk-science-of-hair-analysis-keeps-people-behind-bars/
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Forensics: Right to ‘bodily autonomy’ upheld. ‘Disproven and unsupportable’: Kansas judge blocks junk science abortion restrictions – Kansas Reflector
A Kansas judge blocked several long-standing and newly-implemented abortion restrictions in the state on Monday. — Read on kansasreflector.com/2023/10/30/disproven-and-unsupportable-kansas-judge-blocks-junk-science-abortion-restrictions/
Forensics: Mass casualty ID in Israel. ‘I only knew that from the Nazis’: Israeli forensic experts identify tortured and burned bodies
Experts say they have found evidence of decapitation, rape and people being burned alive. — Read on http://www.politico.eu/article/i-only-knew-that-from-the-nazis-what-israeli-forensics-have-been-seeing-for-days/
Forensics: Fake cop evidence. Who pays out millions to the wrongfully convicted in Ohio? You do.
Charles Jackson retraced the same steps he took in 1991, walking into Casino East bar on Cleveland’s east side, that night he had no idea just how much those steps would cost him. — Read on http://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/taxpayers-on-the-hooks-as-the-state-pays-out-of-millions-of-dollars-to-wrongfully-imprisoned
Forensis: War crimes. Among the Dead: Forensic Scientists Recall Horror of Kosovo’s Mass Graves
The smell of decay and the trauma of exhuming children’s bodies from mass graves dominate the memories of forensic experts who worked in Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia after the war, driven by a sense of justice and the desire to … Continue reading
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