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Is Forensic Science Capable of Correcting Its Woes?
The seminal theme of the US forensic community professes that it can solve its own problems. I doubt it. The public sees in the media these negative forensic themes: undo police/DA/politico attitude influences, the imbalance of drug testing predominating over … Continue reading
Forensics : DAs mess up their own DNA evidence and judge lets them use it against the defense
Douglas Prade has spent over 29 years in prison, then was released by another judge for 16 months and then re-imprisoned since July 2014 by another judge. The physical evidence (a bitemark) of his identification presented at the original trial that … Continue reading
Another bitemarker admits his 1989 “1 to a million” ID opinion was junk.
Bite analysis cited in bid to free man in Dallas killings This exoneration litigation has a hearing today [Monday October 12, 2015] in Dallas. This makes the second bitemark dentist in two weeks to recant his own testimony. This new dentist, … Continue reading
From the Archives: U.S. Mississippi Death Row Case Faults Bite-Mark Forensics
By ERIK ECKHOLM SEPT. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES In one of the country’s first nationally televised criminal trials, of the smirking serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida in 1979, jurors and viewers alike were transfixed as dental experts showed how … Continue reading
New efforts to ID Pearl Harbor victims, the “excitement of delirium” and other Forensic Notes, some strange others tragic.
After a 1947 internment from the battleship Oklahoma, skeletal remains experience new ID attempts. North Carolina has two newly compensated exonerees. 30 years in prison while innocent of murder. Once again, false confessions prove to be largely coerced from vulnerable … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, costs of wrongful convictions, Crime, criminal justice, CSI, DNA profiling, exoneration, forensic pathology, Forensic Science, junk forensic science
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Bad forensic science, Claim of Innocence, Forensic science, wrongful convictions
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Digital ‘forensic science’ has blossomed but regulations and firm protocols are lacking
The author has excellent academic credentials and states unregulated proliferation of court accepted ‘digitalizing’ experts has its obvious risks. As in wrongful incarcerations and convictions. The realm of forensics (any technology or expert opinion used in the courts) “digital” evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Bite Marks, Bitemarks, CSI, junk forensic science
Tagged digital forensics, Forensic science
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Texas Forensic Science Commission will investigate convictions based on bite marks
This is Dr. Mary and Peter Bush, from the U of Buffalo. Their recent series of research papers have given the ABFO bitemark “skin-readers” a real headache. The great state of Texas will be taking a microscopic look at bitemarks. … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice reform, CSI, death penalty, junk forensic science
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, bite marks, Bitemarks, Forensic science, junk forensic science, Miscarriage of justice, wrongful convictions
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Bitemark Evidence Proving to be Unreliable | National Law Journal
A bad month for the bite mark crew of the American Academy of Sciences and the NIST/DOJ National Commision on Forensic Science. http://m.nationallawjournal.com/module/alm/app/nlj.do#!/article/1751566393
Update: White House Report on Forensics Science: “Eradicate” the Use of Bitemarks
Update on the Update: More on this today (Wednesday July 22, 2015) from Radley Balko at THE WATCH On Tuesday, July 21, the White House OSTP issued an oral presentation by: Jo Handelsman “Dr. Jo Handelsman is the Associate Director for … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, criminal justice reform, CSI, Forensic Dentistry, junk forensic science
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bad forensic science, Forensic science, innocence project, junk forensic science, junk science, White House
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‘Science’ trying to teach science standards in research and publishing. Where’s the J of Forensic Sciences?
This is basic stuff, but after a recent publishing dust-up at Science, a group of gate-keeping science editors and their affiliates constructed a spread sheet with descriptors on how to more ‘scientifically’ vette research and articles published within their respective communities,. … Continue reading
