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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
Sample of Scientific Forensics in the News
This edition will focus on the presence of research-based forensics being talked about in our part of the world where “rigorous science is good” is coming out of the White House . Seem that the Science March got most of the news … Continue reading
Taking Police #Forensic Labs to task – “Incompetent or Worse” LCN DNA testing
Los Angeles Crime Lab messes up a rape test. 10 trillionths of a gram of genetic material can put you in jail. It took LA Senior Public Defender Sam Leonard 17 months to get to the truth. “If this is incompetence, it’s … Continue reading
Lab supervisors and accreditors of Annie Doohkan need a serious talking to – Incredible
This all started in 2012. Annie has been in and out of prison. 21,500 cases dismissed. The only problem is that she had been working since 2003. It began with lab managers performing incompetent vetting as she lied about just … Continue reading
Genetic phenotyping described as an “identification” in Jogger Murder case.
The phenotyping part isn’t an ‘identification.’ Suspect in Mass. Jogger Killing Caught by Advanced DNA, License Plate Number Written on Detective’s Hand.
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
Long look at US Terror prosecutions multiple facts – not fake – The Intercept
Cover Story Part 1 “The U.S. government has prosecuted almost 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.” with the following links. Trial and Terror Database The 400 … Continue reading
Forensic Science Commentators to Watch on Twitter – Not the guy in the pic
Just a part of my daily Twitter feed on the battles between politics and the forensic sciences. Radley Balko @radleybalko Washington Post and The Watch journalist guy. The Attack of the Bitemark Matchers. BettyLayne DesPortes @bldesportes President of the American Academy … Continue reading
“All Science is Provisional” Yet Legal Results are either “Guilty or Not Guilty” -Forensic Reform
A pretty good interview of one of the “outsider” (i.e. non-forensic) scientists on the National Commission on Forensics that is (was) on the Trump/Session hit list for non-renewal. He clearly speaks about the challenges to a “meeting of the minds” … Continue reading
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