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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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Tagged National Registry of Exonerations, wrongful convictions
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Forensics: Junk arson ‘science’ leads to conviction, prison, then a coverup plea bargain
From @LilianaSegura. She spent two years on this and it’s worth the ‘long read.’ “How junk arson science convicted a mother of killing her own daughters.” How Junk Arson Science Convicted a Mother of Killing Her Own Daughters
Forensics Today – The rise of the ‘I don’t care’ response to forensic science reform
When forensic reform was trending The Obama-era Commission on Forensic Science just finished its proposals for better over sight on forensics by the Executive branch in the form of an Office on Forensic Science. It’s been under development back to Obama’s … Continue reading
Right to confront prosecution forensic expert now costs defendants $600
NC hates to send their forensic lab experts to court to attest to their labwork and experience the joy of cross-examination. That’s since Melendez- Diaz happened in 2009. It threw crime lab techs into court to authenticate and defend their … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad forensic science, confrontation clause, criminal justice, Forensic science
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County judge thinks ‘bitemark guidelines’ show that it is still a “science’
Here is another great example of a criminal court taking the weak way out by using the 1923 Frye Rule thereby allowing any bitemark expert who belongs to a relevant ‘scientific community’ to talk to the jury during a murder … Continue reading
Appeal court actually uses Daubert to overrule use of non-science assumptions
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Its all about scientific support, or lack there of in the appellate halls of North Carolina. DWI ‘extapolations’ of BA to assume alcohol ‘eliminating’ phase at time of…
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Appeal court actually uses Daubert to overrule use of non-science assumptions
Its all about scientific support, or lack there of in the appellate halls of North Carolina. DWI ‘extapolations’ of BA to assume alcohol ‘eliminating’ phase at time of testing take a hit. Thanks to GGWolk
Further details about “possible” forensic investigation in Tuam mass graves in Ireland
Here we go with experts and some police ‘sources’ talking about the logistics of excavating graves and looking at DNA from the public as “references” for DNA extraction and profiling from the remains. Various directions need to be established. $$ … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA, human identification, mass graves, tuam baby graves
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Forensics: Subverted for-profit publishers in professional publications – Watch out
This is nasty. Forensic students should beware of these dangerous waters within “publish or perish” industry and academia. Some recent communications from companies involved in academic publishing have some journal representatives worried. In one instance, a manuscript editing company offered … Continue reading
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