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Category Archives: Perjury by Prosecutors
Forensics: Bar counsel wants harsher penalties and files Appeals over possible sanctions for 3 former drug lab prosecutors | WBUR News
This has gone on for years. Junk drug testing scandal has fallen onto prosecutors who kept it quiet. The Office of Bar Counsel is appealing proposed sanctions for the three former assistant attorneys general, arguing each should face harsher punishments. … Continue reading
Forensics: Lieing cops accused. Rodney Reed Files New Petition Alleging Prosecutors Illegally Withheld Evidence for 23 Years | Death Penalty
Prosecutors hid favorable evidence from Texas death-row prisoner Rodney Reed during his 1998 trial for the murder of Stacey Stites and then argued for his… — Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/rodney-reed-files-new-petition-alleging-prosecutors-illegally-withheld-evidence-for-23-years
Forensics: Major story. FBI Tampering? Ex-FBI Forensic Examiner, Dr. James Richard Kiper takes on cyber fraud over doctored FBI exhibits.
Very interesting read. FBI Tampering? Suneel’s Expert – FBI Forensic Examiner Dr. James Richard Kiper – ‘the Real McCoy’ – Maybe Top Expert in Nation – Frank Report — Read on frankreport.com/2021/11/02/fbi-tampering-suneels-expert-fbi-forensic-examiner-dr-james-richard-kiper-the-real-mccoy-maybe-top-expert-in-nation/
Forensics: Philadelphia police detectives charged and arrested for lying in Anthony Wright wrongful conviction case.
After DNA seemingly cleared Anthony Wright in 2013, Philadelphia prosecutors and police retried him, but a jury acquitted him in less than an hour — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/13/philadelphia-detectives-charged/
Forensics: Chicago should settle cases of wrongful convictions based on police torture
Time and time again the dollars paid in wrongful conviction cases, including Jon Burge cases, show that an early reasonable settlement would have saved the city millions of dollars. — Read on chicago.suntimes.com/2021/7/21/22587031/chicago-settled-police-torture-wrongful-conviction-lori-lightfoot-robert-smith
Forensics: Texas Prosecutor Resigns After Misconduct in Clinton Young Death Case
A judge called his actions in the Clinton Young case “shocking prosecutorial misconduct that destroyed any semblance of a fair trial.” — Read on http://www.texasobserver.org/in-a-rare-show-of-accountability-a-texas-attorney-has-surrendered-his-license/
Forensics: ‘The criminal justice system does not always get it right,’ chief justice says. DAs says things are just peachy keen.
A team of legal experts is studying ways Ohio’s criminal justice system could be reformed so that wrongful convictions are caught and corrected earlier. — Read on http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/the-criminal-justice-system-does-not-always-get-it-right-chief-justice-says/GCRWVLEFQBAH3OALC3LKSBOWNY/
Forensics: “Autopsy of a Crime Lab” mentions bitemarks and “police forensics.”
Garrett’s new book details injustices in police and prosecutor controlled expert crime scene analyses. His narrative includes steps to insure true quality controls, full disclosure of lab results and avoidance of cognitive biases. http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/04/12/brandon-garrett-director-of-the-wilson-center-for-science-and-justice-discusses-his-new-book-autopsy-of-a-crime-lab-exposing-the-flaws-in-forensics/
Forensics: This DA integrity unit works! How a judge decided lies and reward money led a jury to wrongfully convict a Dallas man in a deadly robbery
Back in ’87 it was “no evidence, no DNA, no fingerprints, NO PROBLEM!” A Dallas man’s conviction in a 1987 deadly robbery should be overturned because prosecutors withheld evidence and the star witness lied about how many… — Read on … Continue reading