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A hunt for bitemark cases in TX : Help the TX Forensic Sci Commission find the ABFO hidden casework
, This is a lapel button representing the”Ouija Board of Forensic Odontology” (from the Ray Krone Family). They are paroding the ABFO bitemark bunch. The latest on the cynical attitude of some in the American Board of Forensic Odontology is … Continue reading
Posted in AAFS, ABFO, Bite Marks, Bitemarks, costs of wrongful convictions, Crime lab scandal, criminal justice reform
Tagged American Academy of Forensic Science, AMERICAN BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY, Bad forensic science, bite mark, bitemark, Bitemarks, CSI, forensic examiner error, junk forensic science, wrongful convictions
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Another bitemarker admits his 1989 “1 to a million” ID opinion was junk.
Bite analysis cited in bid to free man in Dallas killings This exoneration litigation has a hearing today [Monday October 12, 2015] in Dallas. This makes the second bitemark dentist in two weeks to recant his own testimony. This new dentist, … Continue reading
Soon coming to the state you live in: Retesting of thousands of convictions helped by DNA
ADVANCES IN DNA TESTING COULD PUT THOUSANDS OF TEXAS CASES IN LEGAL LIMBO The above image is incredibly evocative. My blog on this came out September 21, 2015. thanks to the September 19, 2015 Grits for Breakfast blog from TX and … Continue reading
Can We Trust Crime Forensics?
A FLAMIMG MAGICIAN DETECTING THE REAL CRIMINAL (NOTE THE DISPARATE PARTICIPANTS OF THE LINEUP). From the Scientific American Aug 18 2015 The bloom is certainly off the flower, when the SA starts publicizing the mythologies contained in the corners of forensic … Continue reading
From the Archives: U.S. Mississippi Death Row Case Faults Bite-Mark Forensics
By ERIK ECKHOLM SEPT. 15, 2014 NEW YORK TIMES In one of the country’s first nationally televised criminal trials, of the smirking serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida in 1979, jurors and viewers alike were transfixed as dental experts showed how … Continue reading
THE SHIFTED PARADIGM: FORENSIC SCIENCE’S OVERDUE EVOLUTION FROM MAGIC TO LAW
A federal magistrate judge speaks words denouncing forensic science superstitions, as some others in the judiciary attack similar soothsayers, and a Virgina Law Review article expounds on a criminal justice system that can’t keep up with science and lacks tools … Continue reading
TX arson case of three decades ago gets a new trial and exposes the gap between science and prosecutions
A long read from Slate but is worth every minute. See how circumstantial evidence (the “bad man” and “liar” collar given to defendants,” and revived “memories” of eye witnesses from long ago impact defense attempts to reject the impregnable original … Continue reading
Forensics: How an anti-lie detector examiner ran afoul of the feds.
This is a long read, but is worth it. Its rather incredible that anyone who admits or “confesses” to crimes and misdeeds to a non law enforcement examiner providing prepping them to pass a lie detector test. The rub appears … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, CSI, forensic examiner error, lie detection
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Flickering Examples of Science getting into Forensics | From Science and the DNA Newsletter
Forensic labs and experts considering blind testing to remove potential context bias At the NIST “Error Management” Conference earlier this month, experts agreed that “a key problem…is that people who evaluate evidence from crime scenes have access to information about … Continue reading
Forensics: A BIG dust up in AUSTRALIA over 400 opines of a state Medical Examiner
This all started with a recent judicial (last year) opinion on a 20 year-old case dealing with “murder in a bathtub.” The government’s path guy, Dr. Colin Manock, got clobbered in a book about this case and which seems to … Continue reading
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