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Forensics in Focus @ CSIDDS| March 6 | We’ve busted through 4,000 visits and views !!
March 6, 2014. To date we have received over 4,000 views in the 8 months since being first published. Thanks to all of you for following!! There are also, 900+ tweets from @csidds that form a daily adjunct to this … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, CSI, exoneration, Exoneration costs, expert testimony, Forensic Science, junk forensic science, police crime labs, prosecutorial misconduct
Tagged costs of wrongful convictions, Forensic science, forensics in focus, forensics news, prosecutorial misconduct, Radley Balko
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Craig Watkins, the Dallas DA, gets rid of contempt accusations
Watkins is noted for his efforts to expand pre and post conviction review of cases in Dallas County Texas. In this instance, a local judge and a political opponent (think JR Ewing) tried to discredit him with a bogus hearing … Continue reading
Chicago’s Judicary and Political Machine delays exoneration progress
Chicago’s machine politics invades the criminal justice system. Outside influences used to prevent or at least delay ex mayor Daley Jr. from giving courtroom testimony. The case in point deals with litigation aiming to release an imprisoned victim of long … Continue reading
Posted in criminal justice, CSI, prosecutorial misconduct
Tagged Criminal Justice, CSI, wrongful convictions
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Prosecutorial Misconduct: Investigating the Investigators
This article shows the problems that surround attempts to reveal police misconduct when coverups, goofs by federal investigators and good ole back door jury tampering occurs. Note the Justice Departments is hiding the ball on the details of what they … Continue reading
Costs of wrongful convictions
The financial connection between wrongful convictions and the costs to taxpayers is a fairly new topic for media discussion. It is rather localized (a $10 million civil award 2013 case from Chicago) in information as nationwide statistics do not appear … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Forensic Science, criminal justice, CSI, Exoneration costs, Forensic Science, prosecutorial misconduct, Wrongful Conviction, wrongful convictions
Tagged AAFS, Bad forensic science, Criminal Justice, expert witnesses, forensic examiner error, wrongful conviction, wrongful convictions
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The best mass media research on prosecutorial misconduct: Radley Balko on Huffington
I couldn’t pass this up. Anyone interested in a lengthy but VERY thorough deconstruction of prosecutors’ history of self serving misuse and abuse of their powers and the judiciary’s (specifically the US Supreme Court) demoralizing actions to preserve this imbalance. … Continue reading
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