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Our Badly Broken Justice System – Cases in Point – Part 1
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…
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Medical Examiner muckup deepens in Montana regarding infant deaths and SBS opinions
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
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The reason there is no change
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…
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The Junk Science of Bite Marks Needs to Go Away
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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)…
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57 months in prison for Iowa State researcher
US vaccine researcher sentenced to prison for fraud. Says he was covering for an earlier lab mistake. The case of Dong-Pyou Han illustrates the uneven nature of penalties for scientific misconduct. http://www.nature.com/news/us-vaccine-researcher-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-1.17660?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
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Forensics: SBS cases study leads to presence of uncommon number of confessions. Are MD’s really cops?
The Child Abuse Pediatrician (CAP) – Just Another Term for Medical “Cop” Washtenaw Watchdogs (Washtenaw County, MI) have just published an investigative report article on their website dealing with this very issue. It’s very powerful. See it HERE. More info on … Continue reading
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US Forensic Odontology Program to provide debunked ABFO bitemark training?
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
Photo credit: UT and Ben Francis. Someone at the University of Tennessee needs to rethink this odontology curriculum. I’m sure that the non-ABFO faculty affiliated with this forensic…
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US Forensic Odontology Program to provide debunked ABFO bitemark training?
Photo credit: UT and Ben Francis. Someone at the University of Tennessee needs to rethink this odontology curriculum. I’m sure that the non-ABFO faculty affiliated with this forensic dentistry program at UT haven’t a clue about what is going on … Continue reading
More DNA PR on hair from Australia. Why don’t we hear about the data?
Once more, we get a university talking about “great breakthroughs” in forensic analysis. This one is abut collecting “trace” DNA from hair shafts (i.e “shed hair”) which “improves success rates” not seen using prior methods. My main gripe is that these … Continue reading
Bitemarks in child abuse case reveals how skin injury patterns vary dramatically on a single victim
Originally posted on FORENSICS and LAW in FOCUS @ CSIDDS | News and Trends:
This amazing article documents how human bite marks on a single victim, arguably by one suspect, are extremely inconsistent in pattern, shape of tooth marks and other details.…
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