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Crim Law: Proposed statutes to counteract use of flawed forensics
Statutory triggers to require audits of tainted crime lab evidence Vigorous affirmative efforts to notify clients of the unreliable forensic evidence Meaningful access to discovery including transcripts, lab notes, etc. Allowing DNA testing when samples are available in a case … Continue reading
A science-based blast at Prosecutors’ belief in alchemy, voodoo and bitemarks
Oxford University Press’ Journal of Law and the Biosciences just published an amicus curiae (i.e. friend of the court) anti-bitemark treatise which empirically debunks the recent PCAST deniers such as the National DA Association, the IAI, a ‘congress’ of crime labs, the US Department … Continue reading
Bu****it info to Young Forensic Scientists about bitemarks – AAFS
This is a current AAFS educational profile talking about disciplines within forensic “science.” It is in the “choosing a career in forensic science” section and amongst other activities, explains “scientist-dentists” role in performing bitemark identification analysis. It seems the AAFS hasn’t put … Continue reading
Anti-PCAST District Attorney Says Bitemark Analysis Opponents Are “Flawed”
This National DA Assoc president works in San Bernardino County, among other things a place where bitemarks helped put an innocent Bill Richards in prison for 23 years. Ramos (campaigning for California’s Attorney General post and pro death penalty) has … Continue reading
Non-unanimous jury verdict of death and junk science at SCOTUS
Petition for Certiorari to SCOTUS: Sireci v. Florida Issue(s): Whether a state court violates a petitioner’s federal due process rights when it denies a new trial and DNA testing in an actual innocence case in which newly discovered evidence demonstrates … Continue reading
Read about the last $$ spent on bitemark research- A waste of $700K
The now lame-duck President’s Council on Sci Tech tried to lay this junk to rest in 2016. The NIJ funded $700K in 2006 to have these two guys study pig skin bitemarks and to make something called “Tom’s toolbox.” http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-05-14-3530693888_x.htm
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DIY Crime Stuff for Young Folks and Police Investigators
I’ve reviewed many a case where a first responding LEO needed some of this information. Especially the Time of Death (TOD) graphic showing the 0-36hr rigor events. More information on this is available here. Livor mortis gets a pass. Here are … Continue reading
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Exonerations in the News: the myth of “worst of the worst”
Justin Brooks and Brian Banks From the WrongfulConvictionsBlog Michigan Radio: Poor and black more likely to be wrongfully convicted… Star Tribune: Innocence Project questions Thomas Rhodes’ murder conviction in wife’s death near Spicer… Nebraska Radio Network: Kirk Bloodsworth brings his … Continue reading
Forensic Bias Redux: Execution vacated. Internal crime lab safeguards blew it.
Colleagues had doubts and concerns. The cops and supervisors loved her work. She admits to be a bit histrionic in and out of the job. The state’s AG has no concerns. Recently the governor and one judge pulled back from … Continue reading
Judges’ College puts together #PCAST forensics and FRE 702 rules
The National JudicialCollege dives deep into explaining how overblown “feature-comparing” experts and actually ANYONE attesting to their “science” can be corralled through using rules within the Federal Rules of Evidence. I think they must have read from all the ABFO … Continue reading
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