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— Read on indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-university-repatriates-700+-native-american-remains-to-angel-mounds.php
Great look at the context of the Tulsa race massacre from a Black bio anthro. Awesome.
Decades after white mobs razed an affluent black neighbourhood the search for bodies goes on.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57244863.amp
Locked up for more than three decades for murder, Gilbert Lee Poole, Jr. had been serving a life sentence since 1989 based largely on a form of forensic evidence once widely used but no longer deemed reliable: bite mark analysis. Now that DNA evidence has ruled him out as the killer, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) hailed his exoneration as the debut act of her two-year-old Conviction Integrity Unit.
— Read on lawandcrime.com/high-profile/man-imprisoned-for-three-decades-based-on-bite-marks-exonerated-of-murder-by-michigan-ags-conviction-integrity-unit/
In the US there are only 81 ABFO forensic dentists. Many are retiring or inactive. For @theNAME1966 to require its certified medical examiner offices to ONLY affiliate ABFO dentists is a serious mistake and not supported by past practices in dental identification casework.
Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom – Eddie Lee Howard
Forensic science practices and methodologies should not be allowed to continue without a rigorous independent review.
— Read on www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/critique-of-baby-shaking-prosecutions-raises-troubling-response-20210523-p57ubw.html
Straight to law enforcement chem-tests are nortorious for this.
You can add Georgia Southern University’s starting quarterback to the list of innocent people wrongly charged with drugs based on a faulty roadside drug test.
— Read on www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-southern-qb-says-false-positive-field-test-showed-bird-droppings-as-cocaine.amp
The Charleston County Coroner and the independent pathologist who examined Jamal Sutherland’s body will not discuss the case. So we went to a nationally known forensic expert for an explanation. A forensic autopsy determined Sutherland died from an “excited state with adverse pharmacotherapeutic effect during subdual process. ” Dr.
— Read on abcnews4.com/news/local/nationally-known-pathologist-calls-jamal-sutherlands-cause-of-death-disguisting
Distressed by authorities’ poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, one doctor became a DNA archivist long before we had the technology to test it. For potentially hundreds of survivors, his faith in science is paying off.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/you-save-as-long-as-you-have-to
