A forensic expert in the Kobe trial has come forward with more damning testimony against LA County officials, this time concerning the handling of evidence.
— Read on www.nickiswift.com/969677/forensic-experts-blunt-opinion-sheds-new-suspicion-in-kobe-bryant-crash-trial/
In 1992, Eddie Lee Howard, a poor black man, was accused of murdering an 84-year-old woman in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Howard had a solid alibi, and the state had no concrete evidence against him. In the original autopsy, the assigned pathologist had found knife wounds, but his report included nothing that would tie the victim specifically to Howard. Investigators needed more. So they brought in “forensic odontologist” Michael West, a Mississippi dentist famous for his ability to use tinted goggles, ultraviolet light, and other gadgets to discover previously unnoticed human bite marks on the bodies of victims. He’d dubbed his self-invented technique the “West Phenomenon.” The victim’s body was disinterred and returned to the morgue. Then, West “got his camera, lenses, UV lights, and yellow goggles out of the trunk of his car and went to work,” writes M. Chris Fabricant in his spellbinding Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System.
— Read on www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-fake-science-corrupts-criminal-justice
Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S.
— Read on apnews.com/article/crime-trending-news-government-and-politics-6f30f575dc739415af1e5b47b1be50f0
On him. As Nassau Executive Blasts Bail Reform, Data Shows Few Are Re-Arrested – East Meadow, NY – Data from the NCPD shows that 87 percent of people arrested last quarter were released without bail. But few went on to commit more crimes.
— Read on patch.com/new-york/eastmeadow/few-released-under-bail-reform-rearrested-nassau-police-data-shows
Adam Foss was honored as the Nelson Mandela Changemaker of the Year in 2017 — the same year he’s accused of raping a woman in a NY hotel room.
— Read on www.insider.com/criminal-justice-reform-advocate-raping-woman-while-she-slept-2022-8
A death-row prisoner whose conviction prosecutors obtained with discredited forensic testimony is set to be executed in Texas on August 17, 2022.…
— Read on deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/texas-prepares-to-execute-man-whose-conviction-relied-on-discredited-forensics
The bombshell report determined the gun used onset could not have fired without someone pulling the trigger.
— Read on www.etonline.com/alec-baldwins-lawyer-responds-to-fbi-forensic-report-concluding-he-may-have-pulled-trigger-in-rust
Small pinpricks of blood are used to screen newborns for serious health conditions—but this genetic data can have legal uses too.
— Read on www.wired.com/story/police-used-a-babys-dna-to-investigate-its-father-for-a-crime/
The president’s unofficial ‘filing system’ involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they’re supposed to be preserved.
— Read on www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
A grand jury indicted a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy on charges of sexually assaulting four girls in a case that prosecutors had declined to pursue a
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-sheriffs-deputy-charged-sexually-assaulting-four-girls-ages-7-13-rcna42675
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