Typical situation. Privacy vs police.
Parabon Nanolabs shot to fame using DNA and genealogy analysis to solve cold cases. Then it had to change tack.
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02545-5
Thread by @davidfrum: I made this point w @AriMelber tonight am still brooding on it: So Trump has confirmed in his own voice that he was notluded about COVID. He knew the danger – and still opted to do nothing and instead belittle the risk in public. Th…
— Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1303855414115799040.html
Jeez. This sure looks look no one took a class on experimental design at the FBI Academy. If one even exists. What an embarrassment.
(Mis)use of scientific measurements in forensic science – ScienceDirect
— Read on www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589871X20300553
Is thus really a “science?” More like tea leaves, phrenology or astrology. Some FP folks are really concerned.
Examining and expanding the friction ridge value decision – ScienceDirect
— Read on www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037907382030270X
New research pieces together the activities and movements of a group of Homo heidelbergensis, a poorly understood species of archaic humans that lived between 700,000 to 200,000 years ago, as they made tools, including the oldest bone tools documented in Europe, and extensively butchered a large horse at the 480,000-year-old archaeological site near Boxgrove, Sussex, the United Kingdom.
— Read on www.sci-news.com/archaeology/homo-heidelbergensis-horse-butchery-site-08812.html
The most recent case of innocence has much in common with other wrongful convictions, including flawed forensic science and lying jailhouse “snitches.”
— Read on www.staugustine.com/story/opinion/2020/09/02/robert-duboises-case-merits-new-commitment-justice-florida/5693919002/
It all starts with lawyers and judges learning some science. Good luck with that. Someone says “knowledge is not understanding.” This piece desxribes the didference.
By Raymond ValerioChief of the Forensic Science Unit, Bronx County (New York) District Attorney’s Office Knowing this, I wrote an article for the WIRE…
— Read on www.tdcaa.com/journal/likelihood-ratios-for-lawyers/
Bite mark evidence has sent at least two dozen innocent people to prison. So why is this debunked forensic method still being used?
— Read on www.innocenceproject.org/what-is-bite-mark-evidence-forensic-science/
courts.ms.gov/Images/Opinions/CO148586.pdf
This case from MS has taken over 25 to litigate for Eddie Lee Howard. Read about the famous flim flam artist Dr. Michael West talk about own brilliance. Kudos to all!!
Adding to the long list of bitemarker mis IDs. The dentist claims that bitemarks still work for investigations. He has always been happy claiming he brought Ted Bundy “to justice.”
The Innocence Project and Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren’s conviction review unit determined that new DNA tests demonstrate Robert Duboise is not guilty in the rape and murder of Barbara Grams.
— Read on www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2020/08/26/state-attorney-dna-exonerates-man-in-1983-tampa-murder/
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