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Trump Administration Kills Obama’s Forensic Evidence Reliability Reform Efforts
Loaded on Dec. 19, 2017
by Mark Wilson
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2018, page 28
Filed under:
Evidentiary Ruling.
Location:
United States of America.
by Mark Wilson
Less than three months into the Trump administration, the President’s assault on science, truth, and all things Obama reached the criminal justice system. Under Trump’s watch, a commission working to improve the reliability of forensic evidence has been abolished.
In 2013, the Obama Administration created the National ...
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