Forensics: Shuttered tox lab has trouble brewing about their pot testing for Chicago DA. As in 2000 cases worth.

Posted on July 4, 2025 by csidds

https://abc7chicago.com/post/university-illinois-chicago-releases-report-faulty-analytical-forensic-testing-laboratory-blood-tests-marijuana-dui-cases/16941855/

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Forensics: What treatment hostages released from captivity need upon release.

Posted on July 3, 2025 by csidds

https://bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12873-025-01257-1

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Forensics: Quackery personified. Im sure the WH will start its own science journal. Id call it “Science for Dummies.”

Posted on July 1, 2025 by csidds

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02080-1

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Forensics: 80 years after his death, North Dakota World War II serviceman’s remains identified

Posted on June 28, 2025 by csidds

Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945, have been identified through new DNA technology.
— Read on www.jamestownsun.com/news/north-dakota/80-years-after-his-death-north-dakota-world-war-ii-servicemans-remains-identified

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Forensics: Hegseth sabotages hurricane weather prediction data placing US cities, people, ships and aircraft in danger. Utter idiocy. Blame it on Biden, I suppose.

Posted on June 26, 2025 by csidds

https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelrlowry/p/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool?r=j5102

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Forensics: See any ICE protestors in this pic?

Posted on June 26, 2025 by csidds
Trump’s Use of Federal Troops in Drug Raid Outside of Los Angeles: An Alarming Escalation
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Forensics: Cops withholding alibi proofs put him in prison for 27 years.

Posted on June 26, 2025 by csidds

https://law.duke.edu/news/wrongful-convictions-clinic-client-released-after-serving-27-years-prison

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John Grisham: Why is Jimmie “Chris” Duncan on LA death row

Posted on June 23, 2025 by csidds

I helped develop the case against the faked bitemark evidence evidence used to convict Duncan.

Jimmie Duncan was convicted in Louisiana almost solely on the wholly fabricated theories of two notorious forensic experts — pathologist Steven Hayne and odontologist Michael West, who peddled a theory known as bite mark analysis, John Grisham writes.
— Read on www.nola.com/opinions/guest_columns/bite-mark-analysis-jimmie-duncan-john-grisham/article_557bcd33-3640-4889-a955-2d481b067ab7.html

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Forensics: appeals court finds gun forensic method is not ‘scientifically valid’

Posted on June 20, 2025 by csidds

Subjectivity in bullet casing matching method is not based on scientific proof. Bitemark opinions are no better.

An Oregon appeals court found that the AFTE gun forensics method in cases involving shootings is not “scientifically valid” and could change how these cases are prosecuted in the state.
— Read on www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-appeals-court-finds-gun-forensics-method-is-not-scientifically-valid/

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Forensics: How to request a remote Immigration hearing. Stay safe.

Posted on June 20, 2025 by csidds

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