Makes me wonder about forensic images saved for kecturing purposes.
Darren Collins, 56, illegally accessed images, including those of murder victims, over a four-year period
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-dead-body-photos-jailed-b1990056.html
The American racial divide in fear of the police – Pickett – – Criminology – Wiley Online Library
— Read on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.12298
KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. – Family members of two people who were found dead in rural Klamath County over four decades ago may finally have some closure. In late September of 1978, Cynthia Frayer and Kirk Wiseman were hitchhiking from Eugene to Klamath Falls. After leaving a Roseburg hotel, the pair disappeared. The following month, Frayer…
— Read on www.fox26medford.com/dna-evidence-brings-closure-to-klamath-county-cold-case/
This new bill strengthens the previous “junk science” bill which was instrumental in the 2016 exoneration of Bill Richards. https://californiainnocenceproject.org/read-their-stories/william-richards/ Bill was convicted in 1997 based on the bitemark testimony of ABFO ex-president Skip Sperber.
SACRAMENTO – Today, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced new criminal justice reform legislation, Senate Bill 467. The text of this legislation will be available online tonight. This bill would amend the standards used for evaluating expert testimony and forensics in court pre- and post-conviction. Faulty forensic and scientific evidence, provided by expert
— Read on sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20220105-senator-wiener-introduces-legislation-end-wrongful-convictions-resulting-faulty-expert
UCO’s W. Roger Webb Forensic Science Institute has teamed up with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum to tackle a mystery involving one of the nation’s most notorious outlaws.
— Read on kfor.com/news/local/forensic-mystery-oklahoma-lab-determining-if-purse-is-linked-to-notorious-outlaw/
An attorney for Earl Washington Jr., who came within days of being executed in Virginia for a murder he didn’t commit, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against a
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – It was a story from her great-aunt that stayed with Jeanetta Williams. Williams, the head of the NAACP, Salt Lake branch grew up in Oklahoma and her great-aunt was a child in 1921. Back then, a race riot broke out in Greenwood just outside of Tulsa. The district was where […]
— Read on www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/the-justice-files-remains-of-1921-tulsa-massacre-to-be-identified-at-utah-dna-lab/
The probe was sparked by former chief medical examiner David Fowler’s testimony in defense of the Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/02/maryland-medical-examiner-cases-review/
Bitemark stories from my casebook.
The number of experts who can claim to have sent two innocent men to death row is pretty small. Michael West did it in a week.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/08/sherwood-brown-exonerated-michael-west/
American Justin Brooks, who is partly based in the UK, has freed people from death row.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-57173868
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