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Dubai Forensic meeting starts with a news article about semi-reliable certainties
This meeting in the UAE sounds interesting. It is named “Spotlight on Forensic Science.” I’m sure some important US forensic folks are attending. Barry Fisher of the AAFS is second speaker on the subject of “admissibility of pattern evidence” and … Continue reading
Progressive DAs get backlash from their “lock-em-up” peers like Michael Ramos
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
District Attorney Aramis D. Ayala of Orlando, FL is getting targeted for realizing that the death penalty is only in play in 0.01% of her criminal cases and…
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These 8 serial executions in Arkansas are sickening.
The death penalty is broken, but that isn’t stopping Arkansas. The state plans to execute 8 people in 10 days so it can use up nearly-expired – and dangerous – execution drugs. Arkansas’s planned assembly line of executions is irresponsible, … Continue reading
Netherlands custody death brings out the ‘perfect’ expert for the cops defence
This is what courts commonly see when expert wits are qualified as keepers of specialized knowledge regarding in-custody deaths. He is a government employee in Amsterdam. http://nltimes.nl/2017/03/29/expert-forensics-witness-history-backing-cops-violence-cases-report Here is a journal article with this same expert, Kees Das, showing up … Continue reading
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Parent deportation by #45 puts children and minors into harm’s way : #Forensic Connect
Think about Exploitation, Foster Care, Runaways, and Death facing these American Children. Nothing seems to penetrate the thick skulls of Trump and his minions regarding the harsh realities to thousands of American born kids by their being left alone after … Continue reading
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Tagged exploited children, missing children, NCMEC, US mass deportation
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FBI facial recognition system fails in a Congressional lookover
At Facial Recognition Databases Hearing, Congress Attacks FBI Here are a few quotes: …saying the technology fosters racial bias, leads to arrests of innocent people and trashes Americans’ privacy. More than 400 million pictures of Americans’ faces are archived in … Continue reading
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Forensic Science International – Some esoteric, others inconclusive and some suggestive.
Review Article Multifarious applications of atomic force microscopy in forensic science investigations GauravPandey, MaithriTharmavaram, DeepakRawtani, Sumit Kumar, Y. Agrawal Research Articles Toxicological investigation of forensic cases related to the designer drug 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV): Detection, quantification and studies on human metabolism … Continue reading
Rudin on an “Office of Forensic Science”
Rudin Votes “No” on ‘Office of Forensic Sciences.” Nora Rudin is a DNA pioneer in the US who has some very pointed comments on the issue of forensic science needing to be independent of prosecutorial and police governmental management influences. … Continue reading
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Its time for AAFS members to wake up and respond to this US #Forensic legislation
The AAFS [American Academy of Forensic Science: http://www.aafs.org%5D previously requested comments whether it should support the new legislation proposed by consortium of forensic science organizations (CFSO) creating an office of forensic science within the Department of Justice, within the Center … Continue reading
Univ of California Irvine Welcomes Nat’l Registry of Exonerations !!
California Innocence Project Director Justin Brooks and exoneree Brian Banks in 2012. Irvine, Calif., March 14, 2017 — The University of California, Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society is now the institutional home for the National Registry of Exonerations, … Continue reading
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