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Ontario drug lab scandal broadens into total review of its forensic system
Teeth have nothing to do with this story of forensic scandal. Unfortunately, no US government agency deems it necessary to review 40 years of junk bitemark opinions. Canada is looking at its crime labs. Drug testing from hair and blood … Continue reading
Photography at crime scenes from the 19th century – Bertillon and Sherlock Holmes
This suspicious fellow is Alphonse Bertillon who started photographing crime scenes in Paris in 1888. He is credited with the ‘mugshot’ protocol and discredited for putting handwriting comparisons in the Dreyfus wrongful conviction into a junk science category. Link to … Continue reading
The ‘totality of indicators’ in DUI arrests passes for ‘science’ to Georgia traffic stops
Another example of police using untested or flawed field sobriety ‘testing’ when accurate drug tests do not exist. Total crap. Innocent folks get jail time, fines, license revocation before DAs drop charges.
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The ABC’s of using Psychic ‘Mentalists’ in crime cases. The US Department of Justice
I’m putting this on a scale of ‘smart’ versus ‘dumb on crime’ chaos going on in the media. It surely clanks the lowest position on the dumb scale. This 2000 White Paper on the use of soothsayers shows how LEOs … Continue reading
Who will pay Bill Richards for 23 years in prison? Answer: California taxpayers
The Richards’ Bitemark Here is the latest video about how Bill Richards was rounded up and convicted of murdering his wife in 1993. DNA said otherwise and also debunked a litany of shoddy forensic work by the San Bernardino Sheriffs … Continue reading
Illinois Prosecutors Admit Junk Science Convicted Innocent Man in 1996
This time it is arson ‘science.’ This is significant as it goes against some DAs and the US Attorney General who declare forensics is just fine. Here is the joint motion to release Adam Gray from prison. The State Attorney Office … 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
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