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Texas Forensic Science Commission will investigate convictions based on bite...
This is Dr. Mary and Peter Bush, from the U of Buffalo. Their recent series of research papers have given the ABFO bitemark “skin-readers” a real headache. The great state of Texas will be taking a...
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Some DAs wandering afar from ethical guidelines
Leaking prosecutors seem to be getting some attention from the FEDS. But they ultimately get slapped on the pinky finger. As in prosecutor Mike Nifong in the Duke rape railroad case getting one day in...
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New efforts to ID Pearl Harbor victims, the “excitement of delirium” and...
After a 1947 internment from the battleship Oklahoma, skeletal remains experience new ID attempts. North Carolina has two newly compensated exonerees. 30 years in prison while innocent of murder. Once...
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The crumbling US criminal defense system – clients are 80% indigent – DAs get...
This data leads one to answer the question: “Why does the US leads in numbers and percentages of incarcerated populations?” Here’s another one: “Why are the numbers of exonerations increasing every...
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The battle to prove coerced confessions and innocence without having DNA to help
Unusual Connecticut Exoneration Centers on Coerced Confession, Not DNA Evidence excerpt: Rosenthal [defense lawyer], citing the University of Michigan Law School National Registry of Exonerations, said...
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Fighting Forensic Junk Science taking place in Dallas Texas: Let’s talk...
In response to chilling mistakes and misdeeds involving the execution of Todd Willingham and the 25 year false incarceration of Michael Morton, things are changing regarding forensic experts in one US...
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Soon coming to the state you live in: Retesting of thousands of convictions...
ADVANCES IN DNA TESTING COULD PUT THOUSANDS OF TEXAS CASES IN LEGAL LIMBO The above image is incredibly evocative. My blog on this came out September 21, 2015. thanks to the September 19, 2015 Grits...
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Unreasonable minds in Forensics : Taking on the deniers of scientific justice.
This is an addition to yesterday’s CSIDDS post…… This new post [ taken from David Averill’s 2012 publication “A response to a critic of the bitemark critics.” ] takes you to the source of the...
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Its time for CA to stand up to junk forensic science in its courts #XONR8
Justin Brooks JerryBrownGov AG Kamala Harris A former prosecutor Judge found Bill Richards innocent 6 years ago! FreeTheCA12 XONR8...
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Forensic scandal of bitemark believers widens from horrible to worse. If...
The status of the American Board of Forensic Odontology sinks further into the swamp of discredit as the number of wrongful bite aided mis identifications in criminal cases increases to 26 in the...
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A hunt for bitemark cases in TX : Help the TX Forensic Sci Commission find...
, This is a lapel button representing the”Ouija Board of Forensic Odontology” (from the Ray Krone Family). They are paroding the ABFO bitemark bunch. The latest on the cynical attitude of some in the...
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Innocence Project investigators uncover cache of bitemark cases suppressed by...
All this started about two months ago. While denying scientific realities and protocols combined with a history of damaging the US criminal justice system, the AAFS/ABFO recently powered up to oppose...
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Grass roots effort to improve justice in 3 Mississippi Counties : Voters and...
Carrington Op-ed From Mississippi The Dispatch What the esteemed MS Law Professor and MS Innocence Project director Tucker Carrington (pictured above) does not say in his opinion piece urging voters...
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Forensics : “Outsiders from New York causing problems” in Oklahama and elsewhere
This is not a re run of “Anatomy of a Murder.” Law enforcement protectors in Tulsa are irate that 1) they recently had to pay out $8 million to a wrongly convicted African-American and 2) those damned...
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Bitemarkers use child abuse cases to defend their continuing acceptance in...
[ the top picture shows 6 categories (1 to 6) of increasing bitemark severity types starting at the top left and progressing to the bottom right. My comments below will refer to this picture.] At...
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President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Seeks Forensic Info
PCAST Forensic Science Questions PCAST consists of 20 of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers, appointed by the President to provide direct advice to him and the White House on important...
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DC considering tightening rules to combat junk science in its courts
Talk about partisan politics in the judicial system. Washington DC lawyers (plantiffs lawyers of course. They sue people in civil courts mostly on a contingency basis) are whining (lets call it like it...
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Forensics: Correcting the effects of junk science is problematic in the US
The separation of the US judiciary individual state court systems creates a systemic obstacle to curing past damage created by flawed CSI expert testimony. Montana is the example used in this article...
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Harvards’ epic article on Innocence Litigation and the woman who exec directs...
A true Xmas season story about Maddy deLone who is the heartbeat of the NY Innocence Project. The challenges of the innocent in prison are described in vivid detail. A worthy and valuable read for...
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Missouri Forensic Science program is told they can help prevent wrongful...
“I’m not here to bash the judicial system,” Barry Beach ( over 30 years in prison ) told a forensic science class at the University of Montana on Friday. “I’m here to say, ‘Let’s do what we can to make...
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