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An in depth analysis of the Bill Richards case now re-litigating before the CA Supreme Court. From The Intercept by Jordan Smith @chronic_jordan. A previous CSIDDS blog on this case.   

Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
We’ve reported here before about the fact that FBI agents have been giving scientifically unsupportable testimony regarding hair comparison evidence for decades. Please see  Hair Analysis Evidence About to Join CBLA as “Junk Science.” This…

Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
In response to recent oral arguments, the MS high court just issued this 2015-08-06 order remand howard. This case has major prosecutorial bitemark ID evidence issues. New DNA…

Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
The American legal system assumes that innocent people don’t confess to crimes they didn’t commit. It also assumes that eyewitness testimony is reliable and that jurors are impartial even though scientific research shows otherwise.  Therein lies the cause of…

Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
This follows up previous blogs about how citizens, damaged by CJ incompetence (including some lawyers) and bad acts, run afoul of legal interpretations of immunity for state employees…

Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
From time to time, I become aware of cases that are particularly good examples of the flaws, problems, shortcomings, and injustices in our so-called justice system that I have been writing about here for…

Good example of the SLOW and weak attempts to manage research unsupported physician opinions of infant deaths. Full article.  This is analogous to a previous post asking questions about ER docs and questionable and potentially unethical child abuse investigations. A very lawyerly … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Eye of the beholder:
Forensic Pathologists trust bitemark pattern injury analysis, and want to use it at their discretion, even if its use becomes passé in identifying the perpetrator. ?The word is out that they think eradication…

Originally posted on Wrongful Convictions Blog:
We’ve posted about bite mark junk science here before. See About Bite Mark Evidence – Forensic Odontology. Now, a leading White House science advisor has exhorted the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…