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Monday’s Quick Clicks…
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Los Angeles to pay out $8 million to exoneree Obie Anthony Exoneree compensation bill moves forward in Alaska Ricky Jackson: After 39 years in prison, an epic tale of innocence found and bitterness lost…
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Forensics: Crime labs continue to show misconduct trends
10 DNA analysts suspended during investigation. http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Scientists-suspended-as-State-Police-DNA-scandal-6194258.php Not doing DNA disappoints juries. http://m.theindependent.com/news/local/life-in-the-crime-lab-is-not-like-it-is/article_96300724-e0bf-11e4-b426-1776e75f3c3e.html?mode=jqm Murder in Australia http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/04/11/11/41/a-sister-s-heartbreaking-wedding-poem
Is Shaken Baby Syndrome the New Satanic Panic?
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LA Weekly has just published an article titled ‘Is Shaken Baby Syndrome the New Satanic Panic?‘ The article highlights many frightening parallels between today’s SBS prosecutions and those of so-called satanic ritual child abusers…
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Forensics: A dilemma happens when research results don’t support your agenda. Perfect example of forensic misconduct.
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Absolutely the best example of contemporary forensic misconduct by an AAFS recognized group advocating their particular brand of “science.” See how their culture of rejecting their own reliability research…
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Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…
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A former Death Row inmate who was wrongfully convicted of a double murder after a Chicago cop withheld or fabricated evidence against him, then was left fuming when a federal jury awarded him just $80,000 in…
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US Justice: Incentivising the death penalty for prosecutors’ advancement and political gain
Here we have Radley Balko on Louisiana’s two “hit men for the death penalty” who seem to have run aground on the reef of their own ambition and indifference to what most of us call “justice.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/04/06/in-louisiana-prosecutor-offices-a-toxic-culture-of-death-and-invincibility/
UK’s Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) subject of critical report.
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The Criminal Cases Review Commission of England and Wales (Scotland has their own Commission) has been the subject of a recent inquiry by the UK Parliament’s Select Justice Committee (see here). The inquiry received…
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PBS’s Recent Segment on SBS (Shaken Baby Syndrome)
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A Disputed Diagnosis that Sends Parents to Prison for Abuse. Last evening (3/23/15), PBS aired a segment that takes a critical look at the diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome. The story features Kate Judson,…
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Prosecutor-Driven Exoneration in Chicago Today…
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From the SunTimes.com: The Thursday jailhouse phone call began not much different than usual. “How’s your day going?” the inmate’s attorney, Kathleen Zellner, asked. “Pretty much like any other day in prison,” replied Alprentiss…
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Juan Rivera to receive $20 million for 20 years of wrongful imprisonment
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Juan Rivera, 42, who endured three trials and twenty years of wrongful imprisonment before being exonerated of a vicious crime, has reached a $20 million settlement agreement with Lake County (IL) authorities. His $1…
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