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Forensics: Insights: Error Rates, Likelihood Ratios, and Jury Evaluation of Forensic Evidence – CSAFE
A study on the effect when known error rates are presented to juries. Assuming a forensic method even knows its error rate.
This is the overview page with links to the actual research.
Insights: Error Rates, Likelihood Ratios, and Jury Evaluation of Forensic Evidence – Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence
— Read on forensicstats.org/blog/2020/04/29/algorithmic-evidence-in-criminal-trials-2/
Forensics: Autopsy of a Crime Lab | Dispelling the myth of a perfect forensic match – YouTube
New book! Brandon Garrett, the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Director of the Wilson Center for Science and Justice, discusses the fallacies and flaws in forensic “science.”
— Read on www.youtube.com/watch
Posted in AAFS, Crime lab scandal, forensic evidence exaggeration, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Bias, forensic science misconduct, forensic science reform, wrongful convictions
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, Bad forensic science, Brandon Garret, Criminal Justice, wrongful convictions
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Forensics: Why Defense Forensics Experts Matter | Psychology Today
I have opposed many a prosecution bitemarker expert claiming equivalency to “its just like a fingerprint.” DAs were never happy. 12 exoneration cases Ive assisted proves who was right.
‘CSI is often presented in a one-sided way at criminal trials. A recent study explores what happens when the defense is given an expert to allow for a real battle of the experts.’
— Read on www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/law-and-psychology/202104/why-defense-forensics-experts-matter
Forensics: Fingerprint comparison in real time.
Interesting look at how pattern analysts collaborate and critique their differences. Their collegial culture is impressive. Photoshop tools are a great improvement in visualizing and recording features. My bitemark cronies were exposed to these methods 20 years ago. The difference is that bruises do not accurately capture the minute details seen in latent fingerprints. Hence, all the wrongful convictions associated with these “bitemark experts.”
Forensics: Grits for Breakfast: Tarrant medical examiner who led Forensic Science Commission found to have misled jury in murder case
Good look at the different layers of resistance within attempts to improve forensic outcomes.
Grits for Breakfast: Tarrant medical examiner who led Forensic Science Commission found to have misled jury in murder case
— Read on gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2021/04/tarrant-medical-examiner-who-led.html
Forensics: Covid effects 1/3 of survivors 6 months post infection. Lancet
Posted in AAFS, Mass Disaster recovery
Tagged covid long-haul effects 1/3 of survivirs, Lancet
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Forensics: A year of trauma: More than 3,600 US health workers died in Covid’s first 12 months – CNN
Lost on the Frontline, a yearlong investigation by The Guardian and KHN to count health care worker deaths, ends Thursday. This is what was learned in a year of tracing the lives of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
— Read on www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/health/health-workers-die-covid-kaiser/index.html
Forensics: A lookback on the DC crime lab’s political turmoil. Firings and nepotism reigned supreme.
The history of an acclaimed “independent” crime lab getting the shaft in Washington DC. Now the lab is in hot water for “deliberately concealed” botched lab tests.
Now the lab is suspended from operation.
Forensics: Wrongful Conviction – Podcasts
Read about the dark side of wrongful convictions. Multiple podcasts.
Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.
— Read on www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/
