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Respected DNA experts Rudin, Inman, and Seigel weigh into DC Crime Lab politics and DNA “secret” statistics”
The following is an excerpt of some of the juicer parts of a in-depth after action article by Norah Rudin and Keith Inman in the California Association of Criminalists news letter. They dissect (the long article with accompanying documents starts … Continue reading
Behind closed doors of Scientific Academia: How (not) to Science
This goes beyond funny to be incredibly sad or whatever you wanna call it. How To Science As Told By 17 Overly Honest Scientists BuzzFeed from 2013 Thanks to @MaxmHouck Originally from The Tusoan
The US Congress/Executive Office needs to step in: Forensic Labs must correct wrong DNA mixture analyses
Here is direct commentary from Friday’s Texas Forensic Commission’s DNA focus group on what to do with adjusting ( i.e. dialing it back from over its optimistic past) DNA mixture analysis. Below, Grits describes the quandary of DNA being this forensic … Continue reading
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More Forensic Problems in Oregon
2d state labsite has police looking into a coverup involving an examiner’s exaggerating results. http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/09/another_crime_lab_workers_evid.html
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Australia: NSW sued for AU$2.3m after corrupt detective causes wrongful conviction
Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
Roseanne Beckett, wrongly convicted for conspiracy to kill her husband in 1991, served 10 years of her 12 year sentence. She finally overturned her conviction in 2005. This month, 26 years later, she successfully…
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Police Misconduct Responsible for Famous Wrongful Conviction in Australia
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The case of Andrew Mallard (pictured here) will be well known to those in Australia – he was wrongly convicted in 1995 of the murder of two women in Western Australia, spending 12 years…
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US judiciary has blinders on when its allows egregious use of junk experts regardless of Constitutional protections
Even when exoneration cases have proven forensic experts wrong (the first 200 exons had a 57% error rate of the participating forensic types :Brandon Garrett, Judging Innocence, 108 COLUMBIA L. REV. 55, 107 (2007)), the US courts’ reliance on precedent … Continue reading
Another Amazing Story of Texas Justice being Brought to Task by DNA and Evidence Destruction
Years after being freed from death row, East Texas man fights to clear name This story is decades long and runs from Dallas, the Texas Monthly, Smith County Texas to New York and back. Now its all about motions for … Continue reading
More on fire science and the Scientific American article “Can we trust crime forensics”
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
A FLAMIMG MAGICIAN DETECTING THE REAL CRIMINAL (NOTE THE DISPARATE PARTICIPANTS OF THE LINEUP). From the Scientific American Aug 18 2015 The bloom is certainly off the flower, when…
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Can We Trust Crime Forensics?
A FLAMIMG MAGICIAN DETECTING THE REAL CRIMINAL (NOTE THE DISPARATE PARTICIPANTS OF THE LINEUP). From the Scientific American Aug 18 2015 The bloom is certainly off the flower, when the SA starts publicizing the mythologies contained in the corners of forensic … Continue reading
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