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More on Forensic Expertise that is largely arbitrary and amatuerish
When someone learns PhotoShop, danger often enters the courtroom when methods and skill sets are loose and standard methods largely not compulsory. Experts in this field have a paucity of validation testing about what they bring in front of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad forensic science, criminal justice, CSI, Forensic science, wrongful convictions
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It’s a good start. The $2 drug tests are great for law enforcement drug warriors, but not much good for anyone else.
More Prosecutors Refuse To Accept Guilty Pleas Based On Faulty $2 Field Drug Tests Latest on cheapo, error prone drug tests apparently going south in Oregon. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/15130336213/more-prosecutors-refuse-to-accept-guilty-pleas-based-faulty-2-field-drug-tests.shtml
Prosecutors dragging their feet on uncovering extent of years long crime lab scandal
In part, the crime lab scientist stole, used and messed with drugs while employed at the crime lab since….. “An interim report by state Assistant Attorney General Thomas Caldwell said, “Ms. Farak began using controlled substances regularly in the last … Continue reading
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Tagged crime lab scandals, CSI
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Wrongful convictions from judicial software glitches lacks quick solutions
A tech company’s software glitches has turned criminal recording keeping into a nightmare by mis-identifying the innocent as guilty. It’s cross the US judicial divide, as the problem isn’t just in California. Any solutions for this appears to have to … Continue reading
Look-back and breaking news on why crimes labs should have independent oversight
This all blows opposite to what the cop crime labs are saying and its a good thing. Here’s the latest from California about botched lab false-positive semen testing results that goes back decades. A hearsay statement has the Santa Clara … Continue reading
American Academy of Forensic Sciences asks public for bitemark validation studies
In an equitable move [probably in the face of all the LEO crime labs complaining] requested by the President’s Council of Science and Technology chairman, Eric Lander, the AAFS is asking its membership to provide more information not mentioned in … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice reform, DNA mixtures, DNA profiling
Tagged criminal justice, CSI, junk science
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Utter silence from over 400 individual US crimes labs after @PCAST forensic report
The US crime lab communities that receive public funding were said to number over 400 (see below) in the 2009 Bureau of Justice Statistics report. Its striking to me that NOTHING has been in the news about what they think … Continue reading
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Tagged criminal justice, CSI, Forensic science, PCAST
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Steven Avery: Close Look at DNA testing and re-testing and non-testing for @ZellnerLaw
Social media is never a good place to divine what’s happening fact-wise in “Making A Murderer” (or in any forensic case for that matter) but here is a collection of the latest. Claims about what the DNA testing list agreed … Continue reading
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Calling current forensics “error prone” includes mixture DNA evidence
Law professor David Kaye and statistical science blogger sums things up nicely: Analyzing mixtures of DNA is “not like a Ouija board — it’s not junk science in that sense,” said David Kaye, a law professor at Penn State University and author … Continue reading
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Crime lab’s woes after Forensic Commission’s audit – Texas
Austin’s lab affecting 120 criminal cases. Most defendants still in jail. Austin crime lab shut down in June Crime lab scrambles
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