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FORGET CSI: A Disaster Is Happening In America’s Crime Labs
Media reports about 2 crime lab scandals per month. Its all about “stealin an cheatin and liein” Headline story from April 2014. Its about bungling in crime labs all associated with law enforcement and the criminal justice system. By Jordan Smith … Continue reading
“False or Misleading Forensic Science” and “Official Misconduct” Leading Factors in 1523 Exonerations
The op-ed excerpted below from the HuffPost’s Radley Balko makes the case that prosecutorial misconduct is a major factor in exoneration cases and exists in other criminal convictions. I have added a second category of interest which raises my concern with forensic … Continue reading
This is endless. Another DA argues that freedom eliminates a man’s attempt to ID the real rapist.
” The revolving door of criminal justice means that once you are in, you can never get out “- ANON NY Innocence Project attorney, Vanessa Potkin, takes on a DA who objects to post conviction DNA testing of Potkin’s client. … Continue reading
Don’t drink the foxglove tea, slow crime lab production and more police involved shootings being investigated
700 year old murder mystery gets a forensic ending. “Evidence data dump” by DA during innocence litigation hearing not ruled misconduct. The judge was not happy. Another DA hoping to support bad forensic sciences with legalistic mumbo jumbo. DA … Continue reading
The unethical rule of politics in the US justice system described as “The Criminalization of Nearly Everything” + Forensic Science News
“The criminalization of nearly everything.” Podcast by journalist Radley Balko explaining the excessive amount and the maze of state and federal laws being overbroad, vague and nearly indefensible for defendants. This system can overwhelm the “presumed innocent until proven guilty” constitutional principle. This … Continue reading
Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct in the US: A Short Media Review
This is a mere sip in the ocean of info on this subject. At a glance, the cases are many, but any semblance of consistent judicial penalties are few. Prosecutorial misconduct occurs when a prosecutor breaks a law or a … Continue reading
New strategy in exoneration litigation: The Nullification of Innocence
Nothing is ever over in exoneration litigation, be it from exonerees’ difficulties in re-entering society, or when some DAs and police, with help from their lawyers, continue to chase after the men and women who have wrongfully endured imprisonment from … Continue reading
Illinois police dept and experts’ defense theory attempts to thwart legally innocent man’s compensation suit.
Let nothing surprise you when lawyers are involved in opposing litigation involving wrongful conviction disputes. There is a civil case in Illinois, that has an exonerated man, Bennie Starks, suing the Waukegan police department and their 2 member panel of … Continue reading
US Exonerations at a Record High; Cost of one wrongful conviction from 1992 is $4.75 million while others go without
The continuing end game for the people erroneously convicted (usually for homicide) and released after decades in prison continues to be clouded. One man in New York gets $4.75 million. NYC paid another man $10 million in April, 2014. US exonerations … Continue reading
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14 year old executed in 1944 gets conviction tossed, Forensics reform, 1st A rights of a police chief takes a hit, and some forensic research
Forensic reform Statistics and the NIST Committee on forensic science. Apparently each working group (OSAC) gets its own stat person. “This subcommittee will focus on standards and guidelines related to examination of body fluids or tissues for the presence and quantity … Continue reading
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