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Forensics: #ForensicOdontology Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated – The Washington Post
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/
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bad Forensic Science, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, criminal justice, Dr. Michael West, exoneration, Exoneration costs, forensic evidence exaggeration, forensic fraud, Forensic Science, forensic science misconduct, junk forensic science, wrongful convictions
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Forensics: This is huge!Law reforms compensation process for those who are wrongly convicted.
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
— Read on newspress.com/law-reforms-compensation-process-for-those-who-are-wrongly-convicted/
Forensics: A deep dive. What happens to troubled prosecutors? New ‘extraordinary’ deposition reveals the answer
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/
Forensics: Early review finds 900+ cases where debunked ‘hair matching science’ was used by prosecutors
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/
Forensics: DNA in murder case sits in Denver crime lab for 11 months
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/
Posted in AAFS, criminal justice, DNA profiling, Forensic Science, police crime labs
Tagged DNA testing delays
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Forensics: Underfunded and mostly thankless. Cold case files: USF forensic anthropologist seeks the public’s help
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/
Posted in AAFS, Forensic Science
Tagged 000 unidentified persons, 40, US missing persons
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Forensics: Scientific fraud. Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid miracle drug – BBC News
Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what’s the evidence?
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809.amp
Forensics: The FBI should listen to this. We’re talking about hair the wrong way : Short Wave : NPR
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
Posted in AAFS, Forensic Science, human identification
Tagged FBI forensic hair comparisons
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Forensics: Gabby Petito update: FBI’s decision to hold victim’s remains, cause of death ‘very unusual,’ Dr. Baden says
Two weeks since Gabby Petito was revealed to have been the victim of a homicide, famed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden told Fox News the FBI’s decision to withhold her remains from her family was “very unusual,” as was the agency’s decision not to release the cause of her death when the manner was announced.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-petito-fbi-autopsy-remains-cause-death-dr-michael-baden
