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Wrongful convictions from judicial software glitches lacks quick solutions
A tech company’s software glitches has turned criminal recording keeping into a nightmare by mis-identifying the innocent as guilty. It’s cross the US judicial divide, as the problem isn’t just in California. Any solutions for this appears to have to … Continue reading
Science in Forensics deniers mostly work for the Cops – No suprise
Here’s a 2015 post that foretells the 2016 pushback on Obama’s Science Council mere mention of “data’based” supported criminal justice for police experts in the US. #LongRead A crime lab “conspiracy theorist” blows off the Innocence Project and criminal justice … Continue reading
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Crim Law: Proposed statutes to counteract use of flawed forensics
Statutory triggers to require audits of tainted crime lab evidence Vigorous affirmative efforts to notify clients of the unreliable forensic evidence Meaningful access to discovery including transcripts, lab notes, etc. Allowing DNA testing when samples are available in a case … Continue reading
Crime lab admits data-driven forensics is here to stay
Taking a strong stance about using data and therefore statistical analysis, a local crime lab says PCAST reinforced what is already being done. It’s a rather large generalization, but their hearts are pure. Now, if only the District Attorneys … Continue reading
Hair matching went away due to the efforts of the Innocence Project – Bitemarks next
In 2013, FBI began its post conviction review in collaboration with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Innocence Project. By 2015, it had mined through hundreds of cases and identified errors in 90 percent of the testimony … Continue reading
Creepy Politics Goes After the Dead and Buried – Exhumation
The body of the Philippine dictator, Fernando Marcos, may get disinterred and maybe rexamined in some manner, if various politicians get their way in court. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/848626/sc-asked-to-order-exhumation-forensic-exam-of-marcos-remains
Steven Avery: Close Look at DNA testing and re-testing and non-testing for @ZellnerLaw
Social media is never a good place to divine what’s happening fact-wise in “Making A Murderer” (or in any forensic case for that matter) but here is a collection of the latest. Claims about what the DNA testing list agreed … Continue reading
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Bu****it info to Young Forensic Scientists about bitemarks – AAFS
This is a current AAFS educational profile talking about disciplines within forensic “science.” It is in the “choosing a career in forensic science” section and amongst other activities, explains “scientist-dentists” role in performing bitemark identification analysis. It seems the AAFS hasn’t put … Continue reading
Calling current forensics “error prone” includes mixture DNA evidence
Law professor David Kaye and statistical science blogger sums things up nicely: Analyzing mixtures of DNA is “not like a Ouija board — it’s not junk science in that sense,” said David Kaye, a law professor at Penn State University and author … Continue reading
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Testing the crime lab testers comes to Houston’s crime lab
I’m not surprised that police crime labs generally avoid stringent internal evals of its personnel. I know of one “blinded” bitemark study, a means of catching perpetrators of crime concept accepted by US District Attorneys. It involved a notorious dentist … Continue reading
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