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Junk Forensic Science Personified in the Media : Most Popular Theme of Forensics in Focus
This blog has arrived at 10,500 hits! Its growth seems to be almost exponential since I started FiF a couple years ago. It can’t be a coincidence that this year’s top theme in FiF (determined by WordPress) has to do … Continue reading
Pushback from the bitemark believers denies bad cases can happen today. Total bs. Their keepers need to wake up.
The bitemark experts once AGAIN, promise that they will do better. Read the following recent website posting from their head honcho. As usual, nothing about where all his newly found reliability comes from. Maybe its his below-mentioned “Tree” system? All the … Continue reading
Scientists create trepidation in certain forensic subjects. Target: Bitemarks
Here is a series of 2 posts by Dr. David Averill who is an ex-member and a past president (1995) of the dental bitemark group, the ABFO. His posts are from February 2011. They contain: 1) the effect of recent … Continue reading
Forensic Experts, outed by DNA as being unreliable in the 2009 NAS Report, ignore their failed cases.
Dr. Michael West was once known as a world-renowned forensic odontologist. His robust resume overflowed with case credentials from the FBI and Scotland Yard. Police and prosecutors from across this nation purchased his expert witness services, earning him accolades in … Continue reading
Bitemark Case Law: The Judicial failure by accepting bitemark experts as “qualified to identify” defendants
“Bitemark Identification” acceptance stems from this list of appellate cases starting in 1975 (Marx). This is a short list of the seminal cases (allowing the jury of decide the evidence declared to be science) that flowed from this first appellate … Continue reading
Ray Krone’s Exoneration from bitemark evidence: THE INSIDE STORY @csidds
Photo by: Heidi Huber/AP This picture has Ray Krone ( left) immediately after his release from AZ prison in 2000. Part of his story is below, which develops the persona of the Prosecutor Noel Levy who put Ray on death … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, Bitemarks, Exoneration costs, junk forensic science, Ray Krone bitemark case, wrongful convictions
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bitemarks, Claim of Innocence, misidentification, Ray Krone exoneration, wrongful convictions
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A brilliant cautionary tale on Fingerprints and their Scientific Uncertainty | The AAFS/ABFO dentists should read this | @csidds
Fingerprints and a “bitemark” used to convict Bill Richards in 1997 in California. The partnerships between the AAFS and police sciences are very strong and professionally intertwined in the US criminal justice system. The organization was originally founded by … Continue reading
Based on a notorius bitemark case: CA legislation plans to reject use of junk and outdated forensics in court @csidds
Radley Balko at the Washington Post’s “The Watch” announces California Senate Bill (SB1048) intent to direct the courts to consider scientific progress and reject junk opinions of debunked forensic methods and prosecutorial bias favoring “finality of verdicts.” He speaks to the … Continue reading
Bad science from the AAFS/ABFO dentists | Media responses from the past | Forensics in Focus @csidds
Making positive news about bitemark evidence for media reporting is a tough job. I thought that I should make a short list of articles that have appeared in major media sources over the decades. Some predate the news about bitemark experts … Continue reading
Bias in Forensic Science: Affirmed and described by another retired forensic scientist | Forensics in Focus @csidds | April 1
The “new topic” of undue influence and cognitive bias (its been around for decades mostly from outside the insular forensic community) by forensic examiners gets some air in this editorial by a retired senior scientist from a Los Angeles crime lab. … Continue reading
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