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Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Filed under: junk science
D.C. Circuit Reverses Nearly 50-Year-Old Murder Conviction Over Faulty Hair Evidence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell For the second time in the past year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned a decades-old murder conviction after the federal government admitted that it used faulty hair evidence …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
New Method to Determine Time of Death for Forensic Investigators by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Researchers at Amsterdam UMC — led by forensic biophysicist Maurice Aalders in collaboration with Co Van Ledden Hulsebosch Center and the Netherlands Forensic Institute —have devised a new method for calculating time of death …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Minnesota Lab Figures Out How to Tell Between Legal Hemp and Illegal Marijuana by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Medical marijuana is legal in the state of Minnesota, but recreational use is not. This causes problems for the state’s Hemp Pilot program, which licenses growers of hemp as long as …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Filed under: junk science
Small Forensics Lab Finds Niche in Analyzing Tiniest Bits of Evidence by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell In the show Making a Murderer on Netflix, a forensics lab was tasked with figuring out if microscopic particles on a bullet were bone, as the prosecutor claimed. Turns out it was wood, …
Article • July 15, 2020 • from CLN August, 2020
Police Use of Robotic Technology Raises Civil Liberty Concerns by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney While Sleepy Hollow had the Headless Horseman, the Massachusetts State Police (“MSP”) had the headless dog. Spot — a one-time member of MSP’s bomb squad — is a semi-autonomous robotic dog that MSP leased for …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
DNA Database of NYC’s Chief Medical Examiner Plagued with Errors by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Darrell Harris was arrested for a home burglary that occurred in December 2018. A detective from the New York Police Department (“NYPD”) told Harris his DNA had been recovered from a window of the …
Article • June 15, 2020 • from CLN July, 2020
Justice Office Awards $145 Million in Forensic Science Grants by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Office of Justice Programs at the Department of Justice recently announced grants of more than $145 million being awarded through various programs it helps to fund. These grants will cover initiatives centered on forensic …
Article • May 15, 2020 • from CLN June, 2020
Filed under: junk science
Latest Forensic Technology, Pattern Analysis, May Be ‘Pseudoscience’ by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. Television crime dramas and docudramas have, for decades, lulled the public into accepting the infallibility of forensic crime science. However, a groundbreaking study by the National Academy of Sciences (“NAS”) — made up of …
Article • May 15, 2020 • from CLN June, 2020
Filed under: junk science
How Old Is That Fingerprint? by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney While forensic scientists have, for more than a hundred years, been able to opine that a fingerprint came from a particular person, the limitations of science did not permit them to state when the fingerprint was left by that …
Article • May 15, 2020 • from CLN June, 2020
Filed under: junk science
Interpreting Emojis as Court Evidence by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Emojis on cellphones and other digital devices have advanced their popularity as a way to express emotion. It should be no surprise then that their ubiquity has brought them into court cases. However, the accepted meanings of the emojis …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
Filed under: junk science
Fingerprint Analysis: High Stakes, Low Qualifications by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Forensic science was long considered a foolproof means of analyzing evidence to determine the identity of individuals involved in a crime or their methods of committing it. If the people in the lab applied their technical expertise to …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
DNA Contamination Threatened Conviction of Innocent Man by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The NYC Medical Examiner’s office (“ME”) reviewed the DNA analysis procedure in a burglary case that was the only evidence used to charge Darrell Harris with the crime. They found that the DNA sample could have been …
Article • April 15, 2020 • from CLN May, 2020
Advanced DNA Technology Helps Free Innocent Georgia Man After Nearly 18 Years in Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On January 8, 2020, Kerry Robinson began the New Year and a new life as he left Georgia’s Coffee Correctional Facility a free man. He had spent nearly 18 years …
Article • March 18, 2020 • from CLN April, 2020
Filed under: junk science
The Faulty Science of Breathalyzers by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins  The forensic sciences, once believed to offer infallible evidence against a wide spectrum of crimes, have in many instances been exposed as little more than smoke and mirrors.  To the growing list of faulty, misleading, or disproven methods can …
Article • March 18, 2020 • from CLN April, 2020
Filed under: junk science
Expert’s Burn-Pattern Conclusions Flawed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The admission of expert opinion based on science is powerful evidence that is supposed to assist the jury in determining the truth surrounding an event. When a flawed opinion comes into play, the scales of justice become tilted. …
Article • January 17, 2020 • from CLN February, 2020
Filed under: junk science, Police
Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool? by Ken Armstrong, Christian Sheckler The creator of Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN, says the tool can identify deception. Law enforcement has used his method for decades, even though there’s no reliable science behind it. Even the CIA and …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Forensic Science: Reliable and Valid? by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The headlines have become too familiar: DNA shows wrong person imprisoned for decades-old crime.  Over 300 people have been exonerated by DNA evidence, and that number will only continue to rise as more cases are scrutinized. That begs the …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Faulty Science Still Admissible Evidence in Many States by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss More than 40 percent of wrongful convictions are based on faulty forensic science, according to the Innocence Project, which works to help exonerate prisoners it believes have been wrongfully convicted. The nonprofit has been responsible for …
Article • July 7, 2019
Groups Challenge Face Recognition Algorithm in Florida Case by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology, and the Innocence Project have teamed up to battle the Florida court system over the constitutional right to confront a defendant’s accuser when …
Article • March 15, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Filed under: junk science, FBI
The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree. by Ryan Gabrielson The bureau’s image unit has linked defendants to crime photographs for decades using unproven techniques and baseless statistics. Studies have begun to raise doubts about the unit’s methods. by Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica At the FBI Laboratory …
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