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Sessions perverting the course of justice and Two guys in the Suffolk – Norfolk gaol
Suffolk authorities and national police chiefs update the effect of bogus work in the Lancaster crime lab. USAG Sessions goes commando as he institutes 1990’s draconian sentencing for serious crimes including drug use. This has incredible economic and social impact. … Continue reading
When defendants have to do their own evidence collection: in the police lab.
All of this is going on within an ASCLD certified police crime lab. In Louisiana,of course. The Innocence Project and the Baton Rouge District Attorney battle over how far the Innocence Project can go to locate evidence that may exonerate a … Continue reading
Sessions suspends internal and external review of erroneous FBI forensic cases
The Backstory on Bad Forensic Science – NY Times Retrograde amnesia might be a diagnosis for Attorney General Sessions’ expanding ‘walk-back’ of years long efforts by media and some forensic practitioners to rid the Criminal Justice system of junk ‘science’ … Continue reading
Medical Labs have more scientific safeguards than Forensic Labs
Jeff Sessions Wants Courts to Rely Less on Science and more on ‘Science” “Clinical laboratories must meet higher standards to be allowed to diagnose strep throat than forensic labs must meet to put a defendant on death row.” – Mother … Continue reading
New Ohio exoneration casts worries about a ‘Sessions Effect’ on criminal justice
E I’m just coining a turn to a familiar forensic science phrase, but US Attorney General Session’s cancelling the NCFS (federal forensic forensics commission) has brought added attention to flawed police science long advertised as being a legal certainty. It … Continue reading
Assault on Science persisting in the US Department of Justice – Updates
The War Over Forensic Science Started Well Before Jeff Sessions-Wired Critics worry ‘junk science‘ to reign as forensic panel ends– Chron.com QA: The U.S. Department of Justice scrapped independent forensics panel, but the scientific…– Science Magazine Matthew T. Mangino: The … Continue reading
US Forensics look forward is getting confused – mirroring Trump’s crony Sessions
We should consider the US Department of Justice declining to renew the Natl Commission on Forensic Science just a foretelling of the retrenching push by police and prosecutor to remain outside normal scientific influences. This agency of public safety via … Continue reading
Congress looks into forensic failures regardless of DOJ Sessions lack of interest
On March 28, 2017 the House Judicial Committee heard from 3 “stakeholders’ ” on numerous forensic science issues including the extreme costs of wrongful convictions (Illinois has paid out $253M between 1989 and 2013). One major item … Continue reading
Proactive DA takes on issue of 600 cases involving chemist with drug addiction
This DA doing the right thing quickly. “From various parts of the country over the years have come stories about prosecutors and courts reluctant to overturn convictions even when defendants’ rights have been violated or when key evidence subsequently proved … Continue reading
Genetic ‘Stop and Frisk’ not such of a magic bullet after all – Familial DNA issues
It seems that most police sciences get validated (at least some do) AFTER the cops start using it. While DNA profiling is considered the ‘gold standard’ for identification (not DNA mixtures, however), this run-up to its use as a … Continue reading
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