Forensic Imaging and Comparison Debate Centers on Expertise of Objects in the Image

Posted on August 11, 2019 by csidds

A lawyer in the UK takes on an important aspect of forensics. The discussion is a bit  nebulous, and focuses on the topic of people identifying objects and people captured on digital media. I suppose old fashioned crime scene photography is a precursor to some of this, although the author doesn’t bring it into the discussion.   He does mention “artefacts” once. He also takes the Forensic Regulator to task for “overreaching.” I’d prefer a POV that emphasizes more collaboration since he does admit that some experts’ opinions “have been in error.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589871X19301329?utm_campaign=STMJ_1564068058_TOPA_TOPOTR&utm_medium=SPPC&utm_source=TW&dgcid=STMJ_1564068058_TOPA_TOPOTR&utm_campaign=MCRED_HMS_TW_Forensics&sf216408449=1

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Forensic bias dangers from police interactions

Posted on August 10, 2019 by csidds

Notables discuss the interface between police and anyone examining crime scene evidence. Especially those folks working police crime labs. Recent cases of experts being influenced by police theories certainly highlights this as creating cognitive bias. It is very hard to unring ideas and conclusions brought into an ongoing forensic exam.

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Forensics: Gun Stores in Allen Texas

Posted on August 3, 2019 by csidds

 

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Forensics: Many in denial. Error perceptions amongst forensic practitioners

Posted on August 3, 2019 by csidds

This is just the abstract. Im getting really raw having to pay big bucks to get journal articles.

Reading any bitemarker’s trial testimony easily confirms this research of 183 “practicing forensic analysts.” The quest for perfection seems to drive many to just assume they are always perfect.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073819303007#!

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Junk science vs DNA leads to law suit for compensation

Posted on August 1, 2019 by csidds

All this began with a “match” of one hair made during the heyday of this now discredited FBI crime fighting method.

http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/indiana/20190801/man-sues-claiming-wrongful-conviction

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See how far DAs go to hide #Flawed #Forensics

Posted on July 31, 2019 by csidds

38K bogus crime lab tests got the prosecutors to reveal their duplicity in covering it up. WTF. Not beyond what happens w bitemark cases.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/07/30/prosecutors-who-covered-up-mass-drug-lab-scandal-now-face-bar-discipline-civil-rights-suit/

 

 

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Forensics: Corp trade secrets dominates rules of evidence in criminal courts. 

Posted on July 30, 2019 by csidds

Really. It is called scientific by some courts but its not available for confirmatory testing. What is it? Proprietary DNA mixture software. 

http://www.abajournal.com/lawscribbler/article/trade-secret-privilege-is-bad-for-criminal-justice

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Autopsy Offers New Details On the Death of A Guatemalan Migrant Child

Posted on July 28, 2019 by csidds

Autopsy Offers New Details On the Death of A Guatemalan Migrant Child
— Read on www.texasmonthly.com/news/autopsy-details-death-guatemalan-migrant-child/amp/

Pathologists reviewing this and other migrant children deaths include @drjudymelinek. Physical and medical neglect of these innocent children is abhorent and are classic human rights violations.

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Junk forensic claims run amok once again.

Posted on July 27, 2019 by csidds

Law enforcement always goes bonkers for junk forensics. This time it is a twitchy next gen version of a “deception detector.”

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/europe-border-control-ai-lie-detector/

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Forensics: Creating false evidence and paying witnesses assured a conviction. 24 years later, a new look reveals all the dirty tricks. Trial DA has no remorse.

Posted on July 26, 2019 by csidds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/26/st-louis-lamar-johnson-conviction-police-scandal/

The police crime scene “reconstruction” is ridiculous. The jury believed it.

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