A Bloomington attorney is helping parents who lost their children to state protective services based on false allegations. Alan Novick says the road to exoneration is long and costly.
— Read on www.wglt.org/local-news/2022-11-15/the-long-and-traumatic-road-to-exoneration-after-dcfs-wrongfully-removes-children-from-home
“Dr. Lee fabricated evidence that he conducted a positive blood test on a towel at the scene of the murder of Everett Carr in 1985,” a court filing alleges.
— Read on lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/two-men-exonerated-of-bloody-1989-murder-accuse-famous-forensic-scientist-henry-lee-of-fabricating-evidence-that-put-them-away-for-decades/
A second body of a possible victim of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has been found to have a gunshot wound, according to the city. “Forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield discovered that one of the three sets of remains exhumed last week contained one victim with a gunshot wound,” according to a statement late Friday from city spokesperson Carson Colvin.
— Read on apnews.com/4f20204dbe6cd54ae2f28d7042820150
Lecture done recently by Chris Fabricant and Rob Warden. A great narration covering junk science in courts given by “eminence-based” scientists rather than “evidence-based” ones.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?522776-2/junk-science-american-criminal-justice-system
‘Junk science’: Counterfeit research papers in China, a worrying trend – The BL
— Read on m.thebl.com/china/junk-science-counterfeit-research-papers-in-china-a-worrying-trend.html
A mobile DNA laboratory was set up this week in Izyum, eastern Ukraine, to spare relatives of the war dead the pain of visually identifying bodies.
— Read on www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221104-in-ukraine-a-mobile-dna-lab-helps-relatives-identify-bodies
In 2020, the UN Human Rights Council mandated a Technical Assistance Team to support judicial investigations into serious crimes in the Kasai provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A year later, that mandate was expanded to cover the whole country. We followed that team on one of its visits to a location where a massacre took place.
— Read on www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2022/11/forensic-investigators-bring-dr-congo-victims-closer-justice
American inventor was known to pick up good vibrations in his skull
— Read on www.musicradar.com/news/thomas-edison-bite-marks-steinway-piano
A cold case is no longer cold. The remains of a woman that were found on a farm in 1988 have been identified.
— Read on kdvr.com/news/local/remains-of-woman-found-on-farm-34-years-ago-identified/
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