90 minute processing for an ID. Old lab took 8 months.
Cook County Board Approves Rapid DNA System for Medical Examiner’s Office (Cook County, IL) – The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved funding [Thursday] for a rapid DNA system for the County’s Medical Examiner’s Office.
— Read on thesouthlandjournal.com/cook-county-board-approves-rapid-dna-system-for-medical-examiners-office/
Radley Balko has co-authored with Tucker Carrington ‘The Cadver King and the Country Dentist.” This WP piece is just a glimpse into how courts keep supporting over-reaching and fradulent “forensic scientists.”
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/
The CA comp board has been obstructionist in processing these claims via DA influences since its inception.
Law reforms compensation process for those who are wrongly convicted – Santa Barbara News-Press
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Most of us have certain minimal requirements to keep our jobs. When we don’t meet those requirements, there are consequences. What if your boss publicly admitted that you had a
— Read on www.kctv5.com/content/tncms/live/
35,000 cases to review. Case data going back to the 1980s. One underfunded and unmotivated State Attorney General is interviewed in this story. The FBI Director wrote a 2016 letter saying their hair experts were giving false testimony in these cases.
WBTV Investigates: Attorney General’s Office continues review, years after promising to start
— Read on www.wbtv.com/2021/10/07/early-review-finds-900-cases-where-debunked-science-was-used-by-prosecutors/
Family asking for public help. Crime lab output delays are unacceptable.
A father is making an emotional plea and putting up $25,000 of his own money to help find his son’s killer. He is also asking the Problem Solvers to look into the time it has taken for DNA evidence to be tested in this case and others.
— Read on kdvr.com/news/local/dna-in-murder-case-sits-in-denver-crime-lab-for-11-months/
Cold case files: USF forensic anthropologist seeks the public’s help • St Pete Catalyst
— Read on stpetecatalyst.com/cold-case-files-usf-forensic-anthropologist-seeks-the-publics-help/
Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what’s the evidence?
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809.amp
Humans have scalp hair. But why is human scalp hair so varied? Biological anthropologist Tina Lasisi wanted to find out. And while completing her PhD at Penn State University, she developed a better system for describing hair — rooted in actual science. To hear more from Tina, check out these webinars: Why Care About Hair (https://bit.ly/3liJZ96) and How Hair Reveals the Futility of Race Categories (https://s.si.edu/3Dik6g8). And to dive deep into Tina’s research, we recommend her paper, The constraints of racialization: How classification and valuation hinder scientific research on human variation (https://bit.ly/3DfDrOS)
— Read on www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043391809/heres-a-better-way-to-talk-about-hair
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