After Roberson’s conviction, the DA “expert” recanted his opinion that the baby’s death was a homicide. Kudos to Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith for this investigative journalism in The Intercept. The TX AG Paxton refuses to apply the Tx Junk Forensic Science statute to Roberson’s appeal.
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/09/texas-junk-science-shaken-baby-robert-roberson-execution/
Welcome to the world of pseudo-forensics.
The entire body of the Indian forensic dental community is a circle of self affirming statements praising their skills. The entire 72 pages of this literature review has no citations. Its references are skewed and unrepresentive of scientific advances undermining their assurances of accuracy and reliability.
The fact that there are so many roadblocks erected to prevent success in freeing falsely convicted inmates from death row, and that it takes so long to bring about an exoneration, is truly scandalous.
— Read on thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4831550-death-row-exoneration/
Bite mark analysis plays a pivotal role in forensic investigations, by helping to identify suspects and establish links between individuals and crime scenes. However, traditional bite mark methodologies face significant challenges due to issues with reliability and subjectivity. Recent advances in m …
— Read on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39088706/
Tools of dental professor’s bitemark research included in Smithsonian exhibition – University at Buffalo
— Read on www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2024/06/Mary-Bush-bitemark-research-Smithsonian.html
This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.”
— Read on evolutionnews.org/2024/07/three-genuine-tells-of-junk-science/
The remains are the first from those graves to be linked directly to the massacre, in which white people killed as many as 300 Black people.
— Read on www.wbay.com/2024/07/12/wwi-veteran-is-first-identified-victim-1921-tulsa-massacre-since-mass-graves-found-mayor-says/
USDOJ funding for these cases is paltry and poorly organized due to bureaucratic and Congressional apathy.
https://www.wral.com/video/6-200-cold-cases-unsolved-in-north-carolina/21517519/
I have co-existed with these dentists for decades. Some are sincere and thoughtful. Others are raging egotists. None are trained as a “scientist .” The outrageous cases like McCrory’s (see the link below) over the last 2 decades have led many of the 100 members of the American Board of Dorensic Odontology to refuse to continue participating in bitemark cases. The younger members of the ABFO, however, have been forced to train from the last few true bitemark believers who gather for their for-profit “fellowships” at U of Texas San Antonio. These new dentists are forced to certify with the ABFO due to the mandates of the US Department of Justice and National Asso of Medical Examiners. This is beyond incredible. No non ABFO dentist is allowed to associate with US Medical Examiners/Coroners who want to /apply/remain NAME certified. The USDOJ now refuses to allow me to continue my contract with the NIJ funded NAMUS missing and unidentified system because I resigned from the ABFO in 2012. The reasons I quit are well described in this latest bitemark conviction litigation that petitioned the US Supreme Court for review. The motion to hear was denied. A dissenting brief of Justice Sotomayor, however, struck to the heart of the ABFO’s forensic misdeeds in her statement that “bitemark forensics is a faulty science.” Read this article from the Guardian about a superstar bitemarker whose history of faulty expertise has led to MULTIPLE false convictions with later exonerations. He also led a coven of his colleagues’ attempt to get me thrown out of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences for not folllowing their “science and “testifying for profit.” Many of these “experts” made $50,000 or more per case.
