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Forensic Commission making suggestions about how and why bitemarks fall short of science
Today (Friday) the Texas Forensic Sci Panel will bring out their final position on bitemarks in the state. Here are some of their reasons why it will not be positive for the bitemarkers. The article misleads the scope of the Commission … Continue reading
“Criminal convictions are final, and science moves on,”
This quote is telling and runs the gamut of what the Texas Forensic Science Commission is dealing with the bitemark believers. Here is another forensic battle of similar proportions. The grueling task of unwinding scientifically unsupported Shaken Baby cases from decades … Continue reading
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Peter Neufeld on the simple reasons bitemarks are dangerous to public safety and US justice
The Innocence Project’s co-founder on NPR explains the fundamental reasons why bitemark matching believers ( a shrinking few at this point) preaching before the National Commission on Forensic Science, the White House Office of Science and Technology and the Texas … Continue reading
Forensics; The Who What and How of bloodspattering opinions
The author is very optimistic and uses “science” inferences to this type of pattern observation method. He does talk a bit about standardizing terminology which is a good thing. The bad thing is he confuses multi-agreement among tested BPA examiners … Continue reading
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How poor crime legislation leads to why Crim Justice reform is vital
Here’s the core reason why knowledge about the over-criminalizing of US citizens is important for all of us. Bipartisan support is claimed in this article from The Hill. We will see. “Clarifying” of course is eventually a matter of interpretation … Continue reading
Forensics: Typical back and forth about when DNA was left at crime scene – Triple murder
Ample bloody DNA evidence used in a second murder trial leads to a conviction. The only problem (which didn’t seem to bother the jury) is that the man used to live in the house with the victims. Maybe some day … Continue reading
Empirical science ignored in these new and old cases; Bitemarks win, DNA loses
When science is not important, forensic evidence is just hocus-pocus ( i.e. mumbo-jumbo; “complicated activity or language usually intended to obscure and confuse” ) in the courtroom. All I can say from the cases in The Latest from the World of … Continue reading
Forensics: Elemental Chemistry gets further into criminal investigations
Tracking Movements With Isotopes Remember your Chemistry classes? Salt Lake County homicide detective Todd Park was in Reno, Nevada, for a conference about serial killers in 2007 when he first heard about what he calls “the isotope stuff.” A colleague … Continue reading
Texas leading massive review of criminal cases based on change in DNA calculations
For those who commented that the recent “updating” of DNA population mixture statistics would be merely a mini-blip in its potential effect on criminal cases, this Texas state-wide revisit of DNA aided convictions should be a downer. Galveston County District Attorney … Continue reading
National Geographic blog ponders TV CSI versus on-the-street CSI
A writer with an industrial chemistry background as a few things to say about the reality of confusion surrounding the “Making of a Murder” documentary. She focuses on the blood evidence from the second murder and makes some good points. … Continue reading
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