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Article • December 15, 2022 • from CLN January, 2023
Filed under: Databases, junk science
NIST’s Upgrade to Software Reference Library Makes Data More Accessible to Law Enforcement by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) upgraded its National Software Reference Library (“NSRL”) to make its data easier for law enforcement agencies to access in searches during criminal investigations. …
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Filed under: Crime Labs, junk science
Understanding Environmental Effects on Blowflies Permits Fine-Tuning of Evidence Revealed From Fly Colonization of Decomposing Bodies by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Forensic investigators have long used the well-known stages of blowfly development found on bodies post mortem to determine the amount of time that has elapsed since death. However, …
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Forensic Psychiatrist Questions the Value of Memory by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Eyewitness testimony is often central to criminal trials, and even though the quality of that testimony has repeatedly come under fire in the age of DNA-based exonerations, the value of eyewitness accounts has not diminished. This value …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
$670,000 Awarded to Use Virtual Reality to Evaluate Eyewitness Accuracy by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett The National Science Foundation (“NSF”) awarded University of Arkansas Professor James Lampinen, and a  team of researchers, just under$670,000 to study the relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy across a range of variables using …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Filed under: junk science
Law Enforcement Refuse to Admit Most Forensic Science Is Junk Science by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In modern America, the idea of forensic “science” being infallible has nearly made it a form of religion to many. And our justice systems perpetuate the idea that “expert” witnesses use forensic …
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Indirect DNA Transfer Can Result in Miscarriages of Justice by David Reutter DNA Evidence Is Not as Infallible in Identifying Perpetrator as Most Believe by David M. Reutter Deoxyribonucleic acid (“DNA”) is regarded as the “gold standard” of forensic evidence. It is considered to be virtually indisputable evidence by juries …
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Expert Forensic Testimony Flawed by Implicit Racial Bias by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The unnecessary deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are examples of incidents that have raised public awareness and hastened conversations about racial bias in the criminal justice system. Reforms in policing have received the …
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Cop Training Other Cops to Use Facial Recognition to ID Individuals During Traffic Stops by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Maryland Detective Nick Jerman was featured in a July 2021 episode of the Street Cop Podcast in which he teaches officers to use subterfuge and publicly available facial recognition …
Article • May 15, 2022 • from CLN June, 2022
New RECOVER Fingerprint Technology Used to Solve 1983 Cold Case by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Forensic technologies are constantly being innovated in an ongoing effort to correctly solve crimes and create a better justice system. Identifying the correct suspect is vital to administering true justice. The sole detective …
Article • May 15, 2022 • from CLN June, 2022
New York Court of Appeals: Frye Hearing Required to Determine Admissibility of DNA Evidence Generated by Proprietary Forensic Statistical Tool by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeals of New York reversed an order of the Appellate Division that had affirmed a trial court’s order denying a hearing …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from CLN May, 2022
The Pseudoscientific Practice of Blood Spatter Analysis How the Desire for Convictions Drives Flawed Prosecutions by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The forensic science known as Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (“BPA”)—a.k.a. blood spatter analysis—is undergoing significant development after being the object of intense criticism regarding its reliability in the context …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Filed under: junk science
Maryland Prosecutor Covers for FBI Agent’s Lies in Defense of Junk Science by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Despite the constant glamorization of forensic evidence analysis that has become so common on TV shows, regular readers of CLN should be well aware that what passes for “science” in many actual …
Article • January 18, 2022
Excited Delirium: Junk Science Used to Shield Cops Who Brutalize and Kill by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott As part of the movement to reform policing in a nation shell-shocked by police brutality, oversight groups are starting to focus on the “excited delirium” justification for using lethal force …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Filed under: junk science
New Study Reveals Digital Forensic Examiners Inclined to Biasability by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian In a first-of-its-kind study, renowned cognitive bias expert Itiel Dror and co-author Nina Surnde researched the reliability and biasability (the impact of contextual information) of digital forensics (“DF”) experts’ performance. The study is titled …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: Crime Labs, junk science
Microbiome: The Latest in Cutting Edge Forensics by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino One week after the attacks of September 11, 2001, letters containing anthrax were mailed to several news outlets, and to the offices of two U.S. Senators, forcing the FBI to seek new and innovative methods to …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Excited Delirium Syndrome: Pseudo-Scientific Shield for Law Enforcement’s Violent Behavior by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. By the time Denver Police Department (“DPD”) officers handcuffed Anthony Sleets on July 7, 2021, he was already having a bad day. He had passed out in a hotel parking lot after …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Maryland Court of Appeals Announces Standard for Whether Scientific Evidence Is ‘Testimonial’ for Confrontation Right Purposes Under Article 21 of Maryland Declaration of Rights by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Citing lack of clear guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Maryland Court of Appeals (“MCA” or “Court”) announced that …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: junk science
Current Forensic Sciences Not as Objective as Most Believe by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Television may well be the most effective propaganda tool in the world, especially when it comes to portraying forensic scientists and their laboratories as dispassionate and dedicated professionals and their laboratories as pristine and state-of-the-art …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: junk science
Study: Bloodstain Pattern Analyses Display Alarming Lack of Accuracy by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. In the summer of 2000, after discovering his wife and two small children fatally shot in the family’s car inside their garage, former Indiana State Trooper David Camm was arrested and charged with …
The Clash Between Closed-Source Forensic Tools and the Confrontation Clause by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Technology companies and prosecutors are working together to assert the right of the companies to protect their intellectual property in ways that deny criminal defendants their right to challenge the reliability of forensic …
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