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Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Agencies: Bite-mark Forensics Outdated Science by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Critics contend that bite-mark evidence is an inconclusive forensic science and should be supported by other evidence when used in the prosecution of a defendant for any crime. To date, there have been 31 exonerations from re-examination of cases …
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rosenstein Defends Junk Science Forensics by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Criminal Legal News and its sister publication, Prison Legal News, have long covered prosecutors’ use of questionable forensics and unscientific lab techniques to secure convictions [PLN Oct. 2010, p. l; Apr. 2015, p. l, and …
Article • January 18, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Report: Bitemark Analysis Debunked as Pseudoscience by Richard Resch by Richard Resch Unreliable bitemark identification evidence used in criminal cases has led to 31 exonerations, forensicmag.com reports. “The unsupported comparison of such bite marks left in human skin during rapes, murders and other violent attacks should be totally thrown out …
Article • December 30, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Filed under: junk science
Junk Sciences and Scientists Strike Again in Texas by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon It is an unfortunate byproduct in the age of mass incarceration in the United States that there are a great many wrongful convictions. Despite its negative reputation in the criminal justice area, Texas has been slowly …
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Oregon Supreme Court: ‘Grooming’ Evidence Requires Scientific Validity Foundation by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Supreme Court of Oregon held that expert testimony about “grooming” children for subsequent sexual abuse is “scientific” evidence that may not be admitted without a foundational showing of scientific validity under Or. Evid. Code …
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Harris County, Texas Prosecutors Review DWI Cases Impacted by Discredited Expert by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The testimony of county scientist Fessessework Guale, who was employed by the Harris County medical examiner’s office for 10 years, has been called into question by the very criminal justice offices who relied …
The Fallibility of Forensic Science: Crime-Solving Tool Can Lead to Wrongful Convictions—and Belated Exonerations by Rick Anderson by Rick Anderson It’s the ultimate crime-solving tool, enabling prosecutors to bring seemingly rock-solid charges against accused murderers and rapists while also using it to re-open and solve dust-collecting cold cases. Victims and …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Oklahoma’s Railroading its Citizens into Prison by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Lynch mobs, vigilance committees, and necktie parties. These terms evoke what many stories refer to as frontier justice, where groups of people operated outside the established frameworks of law and order, sheriffs and courts, to wreak revenge on …
Article • August 17, 2018 • from CLN September, 2018
Academic Paper Highlights Need to Tighten Rules for Fingerprint Evidence in Light of False-Positive Error Rate by Steve Horn by Steve Horn A new study published in the UCLA Law Review reveals a potential for rule tightening on the use of fingerprint evidence in the U.S. judiciary. “The Reliable Application …
Article • June 18, 2018
Filed under: Crime Labs, junk science
Junk Science Puts Innocent People in Prison and Keeps Them There by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke It has been years since the National Academy of Sciences and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology published studies casting serious doubt on courtroom claims of practitioners of “pattern matching” …
Article • January 6, 2018 • from CLN January, 2018
Faulty Forensics and Lab Scandals Highlight Urgent Need for Enforceable Scientific Standards by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A 2009 report by the National Academy of Sciences (“NAS”) criticizing the varying quality of crime labs throughout the nation and questioning the scientific basis of several forensic methods that were routinely …
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