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The Supreme Court’s Forensic Follies

Loaded on March 15, 2024 by Michael Thompson published in Criminal Legal News March, 2024, page 22
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, junk science. Location: United States of America.

by Michael Dean Thompson

The framers of the Constitution attempted to guarantee defendants a fundamentally fair trial. They did so, however, at a time when modern science and the scientific method was in its infancy. For that reason, scientific forensic evaluations and standards were not mentioned, leaving the Supreme Court ...

 

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