Touch DNA is developed from skin cells. The method of collecting the DNA carries the same scientific standard of evidence as any other form of collection.
— Read on www.deseret.com/utah/2021/6/14/22462332/touch-dna-found-on-clothing-helps-police-find-gropers-after-breakthrough-utah-case
Just published. Already has rave reviews.
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System [Fabricant, M. Chris] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
— Read on www.amazon.com/Science-American-Criminal-Justice-System/dp/1636140300/ref=nodl_
One pathologist birthed this idea: An ad hoc supposition with no science foundation regarding its direct relationship to custodial “postural asphyxiation” by police.
“Excited Delirium” and Deaths in Police Custody – Physicians for Human Rights
— Read on phr.org/our-work/resources/excited-delirium/
The company funded experiments on mostly Black men comparing the effects of talc and asbestos on their skin
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-07/j-j-s-controversial-prison-testing-resurfaces-in-baby-powder-lawsuits
AUTOPSY INITIATIVE | Know Your Rights
— Read on www.knowyourrightscamp.com/autopsyinitiative
The remains found in Snohomish County in 1980 have been identified as a missing Georgia man, Ronald David Chambers, who went missing in 1978.
— Read on www.king5.com/article/news/local/snohomish-county-1980-cold-case/281-cb5cd717-9733-4334-992d-484b0c541a40
A man in Florida who was exonerated after spending 37 years in prison for a 1983 rape and murder filed a lawsuit against police officials and the forensic dentist who testified against him, claiming they “knowingly fabricated” evidence used to convict him.
— Read on lawandcrime.com/crime/florida-man-exonerated-in-1983-rape-and-murder-sues-cops-and-a-forensic-dentist-who-once-helped-convict-ted-bundy/
The San Francisco Police Commission grilled police department leaders Wednesday about the policies and procedures that allowed officers to use DNA
— Read on missionlocal.org/2022/03/police-explain-how-rape-kit-ended-up-in-a-database/
A colleague of General Andrei Sukhovetsky posted news of his death on social media and Ukrainian and Russian media outlets have also published the story.
— Read on www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-sukhovetsky-conflict-1684441
The bitemarkers get thoroughly dumped on in the paper as “non-scientists.”
The strange persistence of (source) “identification” claims in forensic literature through descriptivism, diagnosticism and machinism – ScienceDirect
— Read on www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589871X22000079
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