Forensics: How Flawed Science of Bite-Mark Analysis Imprisoned a Man for Murder

Posted on January 27, 2021 by csidds

A wide open look at the face of junk forensics from 2015. The bitemarkers now claim they are “new and improved.” They certainly will argue that myth at upcoming evidentiary hearings in 2 southern states of the US. It is outrageous that US prosecutors still stoop, in 2021, to such abysmal use of these scientific misanthropes.

Forensic dentists who peddled junk science now admit they were wrong. But will their colleagues — and the courts — listen?
— Read on theintercept.com/2015/08/20/flawed-science-of-bite-marks/

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Forensics: Top forensic expert jailed for identifying weapons sent to jihadists by Turkey’s intel agency – Nordic Monitor

Posted on January 27, 2021 by csidds

Ergodan is a despot.

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm
— Read on nordicmonitor.com/2021/01/top-european-forensic-expert-jailed-for-identifying-ammunitions-sent-to-jihadists-by-turkeys-intelligence/

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Forensics: Round 2 soon coming your way. Council Concludes Bite-Mark Analysis Is Junk – The Intercept

Posted on January 26, 2021 by csidds

This is from 2016. Then Trump eviscerated forensic science reform. Prosecutors, some crime lab ppl, and the FBI (Lynch and Sessions) all personally attacked the Obama admin’s (including Eric Lander and the “activist and conflicted” Innocence Project) multiple science commissions critiques of police over-stated crime lab traditions.

Lander is now back in as head of Biden’s Science and Tech Policy which generated so much anguish for these governmental “protectors of forensic integrity.” In particular, the bitemarkers squealed loudly in their seminally stupid “enamel and epidermis” tirade that Zalman and Windell recently skewered in “The Bite Mark Dentists Counterattack on Forensic Science Reform.”

A draft report from a presidential council of science and technology advisers determined that forensic bite-mark analysis has no scientific validity.
— Read on theintercept.com/2016/09/07/white-house-report-concludes-that-bite-mark-analysis-is-junk-science/

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Forensics: Justice still alive. Gaps in Trump’s Pardons Apply to Bannon Criminal Charges As Well

Posted on January 25, 2021 by csidds

Trump obviously ran out of competent lawyers during his last days is obvious. Too bad for his buddies.

UPDATE: Gaps in Trump’s Pardons Apply to Bannon Criminal Charges As Well
— Read on www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardons-how-the-biden-administration-can-still-pursue-justice/

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Forensics: False theories on Covid. Legislator who questioned Black hygiene to lead health panel

Posted on January 25, 2021 by csidds

This dope needs some remedial medical intervention.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportionately contracting the coronavirus because of their hygiene is…
— Read on apnews.com/article/health-ohio-coronavirus-pandemic-0dd121777081707b4c061ed8e4649df6

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Forensics: Removing junk “historians.” Biden Disbands Trump’s Racist 1776 Commission

Posted on January 24, 2021 by csidds

Joe Biden has disbanded and shut down Donald Trump’s racist revisionist history project, the 1776 commission.
— Read on www.themarysue.com/biden-disbands-trumps-racist-1776-commission/amp/

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Forensics: @WHOSTP45 | Bill Richards bogus ABFO bitemark case leads to California Senator Taking on Wrongful Convictions and Forensics in Reform Bill

Posted on January 23, 2021 by csidds

A “one tooth” bitemark “match” from an ABFO/AAFS bitemarker led to Bill’s 26 years in jail and prison. A Texas upper court has just stayed a Jan 21 2021 execution of Blaine Milam based on a “3 tooth” bitemark ID from another ABFO/AAFS dentist. I participated in both appeals. “Bitemark Science” is unsafe for ANY purpose. The AAFS should repudiate this junk science methods and sanction its affiliated “forensic dental board” (www.abfo.org) for continuing to assert lies about its efficacy.

California Senator Takes on Wrongful Convictions and Forensics in Reform Bill
— Read on www.courthousenews.com/california-senator-takes-on-wrongful-convictions-and-forensics-in-reform-bill/

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Forensics: Will the Return of Science Reinvigorate Forensics Reform? Yeah Jordan Smith!

Posted on January 22, 2021 by csidds

Guess who is on the junk science list? The ABFO/AAFS bitemarkers.

Eric Lander, Biden’s pick for top science adviser, co-authored a damning report on the faulty forensic practices behind hundreds of wrongful convictions.
— Read on theintercept.com/2021/01/22/biden-forensic-science-eric-lander/

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Forensics: Biden Must Put The Science Back Into Forensic Science – ABFO/AAFS bitemarkers get humiliated

Posted on January 22, 2021 by csidds

This article comes out swinging at junk forensics. The ABFO comes up immediately. Of course. Some of these guys have been officers of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Medical Examiner certification demands ABFOers be employed or consulted in dental cases. This needs to change.

Despite lacking scientific credibility, many flawed forensic science methods continue to be used in courtrooms. Past admission of such evidence has created a “precedent” that allows its continued use. As science leans forward and builds on prior knowledge, the law leans backward.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/sunitasah/2021/01/22/the-biden-administration-must-put-the-science-back-into-forensic-science/amp/

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Forensics: Research Archives| Donald J. Trump Presidential Library

Posted on January 20, 2021 by csidds

Let’s start with rRumps cell phone, tax and business records.

Research | Donald J. Trump Presidential Library
— Read on www.trumplibrary.gov/research

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