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Events taking Forensic DNA into disputable areas leads to firings, lawsuits and rancor
Having just returned from the forensic science AAFS annual meeting, all I heard from the DNA people was that their conference was quiet and rather boring. They seemed to prefer sitting in the odontology bitemark session which was SRO. We … Continue reading
UK Chief Jurist tells the forensics and science communities to stop “needless arguments” in court
A UK jurist (President of the UK Supreme Court in London) asks for documents consolidating “science” facts for use in courts to “save time” confusion and “needless disputes.” He mentions patent law as an area which gives judges a treatise … Continue reading
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Major Forensic News from the DNA Newsletter by the NY Legal Aid Society
Forensics in the News Low Copy Number DNA Testing Continues to be Questioned (NY Times, ABC News) In the wake of Marina Stajic’s lawsuit against the NYC OCME, alleging in part that she was forced to retire because of questions … Continue reading
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The White House pushes forward on further review of FBI pattern and trace evidence testimony
Hair is gone, lead in bullets is out, bitemarks as “fingerprints” has died, graphology disappeared, so what’s next? Alot. Last fall I had pleasant conversation with Professor (Yale) Jo Handelsman from the White House Office of Sci and Tech. We conversed … Continue reading
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International Forensic Science News – Things could be better
International POV on Forensic Medicine as a “dying profession.” No pun intended. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1056144/forensics-day-forensic-medicine-is-a-dying-profession/ “Fundamentally flawed” forensic path opinion in Canada. http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/28/woman-implicated-by-charles-smiths-flawed-evidence-hopes-for-closure-and-peace.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/maria-shepherd-conviction-1.3468706 Scotland: Sacked forensic fingerprint expert asks for job back. http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/28/woman-implicated-by-charles-smiths-flawed-evidence-hopes-for-closure-and-peace.html
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Forensics: DNA still relevant in last year’s 149 nationwide exonerations
THE NATIONAL Registry of Exonerations declared Wednesday that “by any reasonable accounting, there are tens of thousands of false convictions each year across the country, and many more that have accumulated over the decades.” The researchers found that only 17 percent … Continue reading
#AAFS2016 to showcase scientific proofs that bitemark IDs are not reliable
This article highlights the research of Mary and Peter Bush at the U of Buffalo which will again be presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting in Lost Wages, NV. Peter and a few others (including me) … Continue reading
Forensics: More accusations of faked NY State Crime lab testing – This time its DNA
Scientists claim New York police forced them to fake DNA tests to convict more suspects Looking closely at the NY State emblem, the lady onn the right, balancing justice, is supposed to be blindfolded. Some say its not really like that. These … Continue reading
Over the top proclamation of shoeprints “almost” like fingerprints
Here is another UK university paid news flash on the use of high tech instrumentation to super-image walking gaits (“unique”) and shoe prints as a “low-cost” means to associate shoes with crime scenes. They also talk about “speeding up” investigations … Continue reading
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NIST $20M funded statistician says there is “no good reason” for bitemark identifications
This continues the US forensic saga and underscores why all the bitemark ID cases are junk opinions. It also contradicts and makes moot the NIST sponsored National Forensic Science Commission’s bitemark committee outcomes. I mentioned at some point in the … Continue reading
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