Best of the best. Plus a cute little Chu(ie).
Four Inspiring Female Scientists Tell Us How They Ended Up at the Innocence Project
— Read on innocenceproject.org/women-in-stem-forensic-science-psychology/
Free access. Just have to register. The numbers increased exponentially in the opinion of these authors. The causal relationships are clear.
Public policy and health in the Trump era – The Lancet
— Read on www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext
The viral vid of the Zoom “I am not a cat” lawyer didnt tell his entire story.
Grits for Breakfast: Dallas News to AG: Don’t go looking for trouble by nixing arson review
— Read on gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2013/10/dallas-news-to-ag-dont-go-looking-for.html
Some DAs have no soul. Especially in Texas. As usual politicians continue to screw-up public health response to the pandemic. This guy has been professionally lynched.
Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife. What followed was “the lowest moment in my life,” Dr. Hasan Gokal said.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/houston-doctor-fired-covid-vaccine.html
Very good read by Jordan Smith. You can add the ABFO bitemarkers to this list of experts enabling the death penalty in TX and elsewhere.
In his new book, journalist Maurice Chammah explores the rise and fall of capital punishment in Texas and what it means for the country.
— Read on theintercept.com/2021/02/09/death-penalty-texas-maurice-chammah-let-the-lord-sort-them/
Worst of the worst.
A prosecutor moonlighted on the cases of 355 defendants for nine judges. Their sentences range from probation to the death penalty.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2021/02/04/texas-death-row-inmate-could-get-new-trial/4255647001/
Lawyers for tRump lying once again. This half-baked legal crew must be desperate for R clients being chased by the FBI.
Donald Trump’s defense team was accused of flagrantly misrepresenting the work of a constitutional scholar when asserting that the former president’s impeachment is unconstitutional.
— Read on lawandcrime.com/impeachment/law-professor-cited-15-times-by-trumps-legal-team-says-impeachment-memo-was-filled-with-flat-out-misrepresentations-of-his-work/amp/
He died protecting his beloved Palmyra.
Syria ‘finds body of archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad beheaded by IS’ – BBC News
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-middle-east-55977964
Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall.
— Read on www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/trump-officials-lobbied-to-deny-states-money-for-vaccine-rollout/
Apparently, high-school science is beyond the ken of these law school geniuses at the DOJ. They quack like little lame 🦆ies.
Donald Trump, the DOJ, and forensics: the administration snuck in one last push for junk science in courts.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/trump-doj-forensic-science-pcast.amp
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