Forensics: More costs for taxpayers: wrongful convictions. New Orleans DA Leon Cannizzaro sees $750k in legal bills for defense against misconduct claims

Many claims for multiple DAs misconduct are in the New Orlean court system. Dirty tricks like false subpoenas and worse.

The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office amassed at least $748,000 in legal bills related to misconduct allegations since 2017, a tab that’s only expected to grow amid several ongoing legal
— Read on www.nola.com/content/tncms/live/

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Forensics: Phoenix PD crime lab assists with COVID-19 tests on those who’ve died

Hmm. Is this a good idea? Depends on the lab? The choices of what tests are unregulated. PCR appears the best. Ive wondered abt this for months in the area of public covid testing. In this case they are just doing postmortem testing.

In an effort to help public agencies gain control of the pandemic, the Phoenix Police Department is helping conduct COVID-19 tests on those who’ve died.
— Read on www.fox10phoenix.com/news/phoenix-pd-crime-lab-assists-with-covid-19-tests-on-those-whove-died

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Forensics: The truth of about plea deals. Most criminal justice in Colorado comes through plea deals, but DAs don’t track whether the process is racially biased

“Most?” Only 1% go to trial. This means that 99% of any forensic opinions favoring the prosecutors never get an independent review presented before the court.

Most criminal justice in Colorado comes through plea deals, but DAs don’t track whether the process is racially biased – Greeley Tribune
— Read on www.greeleytribune.com/2020/11/02/plea-deals-racial-bias-colorado/

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Forensics: Trump’s legacy: El Paso, Texas, Gets 4th Mobile Morgue As COVID-19 Deaths Rise

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A spike in cases recently led El Paso’s county judge to impose a shelter-in-place order closing many nonessential businesses. The Texas attorney general has sued to block that order.
— Read on www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/02/930304129/el-paso-official-says-fourth-mobile-morgue-is-delivered-as-coronavirus-deaths-mo

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Forensics: False positive testing from junk testing labs. HHS eased oversight of Covid-19 tests though it knew of problems – STAT

Typical example of “smaller government” myth used by Trump. Public health disaster results.

Lab-developed tests are being used across the country to try to manage the pandemic, yet they are something of a black box.
— Read on www.statnews.com/2020/11/02/hhs-relaxed-oversight-of-problematic-covid19-tests-despite-being-told-of-accuracy-concerns/

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Forensics: DC forensic lab under scrutiny after evidence errors discovered in murder cases

Cop forensics in DC having some problems again and again an………

Federal prosecutors in D.C. have opened a sweeping audit into the handling of ballistics evidence by the District’s forensic lab after the discovery of a…
— Read on wtop.com/dc/2020/11/dc-forensic-lab-under-scrutiny-after-evidence-errors-discovered-in-murder-cases/

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Forensics: Profiteering politician owns a plasma company run out of a condo.

Its a “luxury” condo though. Ex US senator says its all ok for the “better good.” For whom?

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-plasma-rick-santorum_n_5f9ec0dbc5b616c2f315c92d

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Forensics: @CSIDDS has 3,000 views for October 2020. 23,000 for the year. From around the world.

I thank you all. I really appreciate your interest and support.

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Forensics: US scientific failure. Dr. Tony Fauci comes clean on Trump’s pandemic response: America ‘could not possibly be positioned more poorly’

The nation’s leading infectious-disease expert gave a blunt assessment’s of President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 failures…
— Read on www.rawstory.com/2020/10/dr-tony-fauci-comes-clean-on-trumps-response-america-could-not-possibly-be-positioned-more-poorly/amp/

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Forensics: A Black Death mass grave at Thornton Abbey: the discovery and examination of a fourteenth-century rural catastrophe

Unfortunately, a contemporary issue we are experiencing via Covid.

A Black Death mass grave at Thornton Abbey: the discovery and examination of a fourteenth-century rural catastrophe – Volume 94 Issue 373
— Read on www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/black-death-mass-grave-at-thornton-abbey-the-discovery-and-examination-of-a-fourteenthcentury-rural-catastrophe/E0CC072A347CD3E91116DFB5133505F5/share/8f3d4b4a447ed6755d1d63a5b4359aead0957e62

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