Shaken Baby Syndrome (3): Aisling Brady McCarthy: Massachusetts: Boston Globe...
"The parents of a 1-year-old Cambridge girl who died in 2013 after a sudden catastrophic brain bleed filed a wrongful death Thursday against the child’s nanny, five months after prosecutors dropped...
View ArticleBulletin: Major development; Texas; Bite mark evidence: 'My Statesman'...
"Bite mark evidence should be inadmissible in the courtroom until researchers can establish basic criteria to measure its reliability, members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission said Thursday.In...
View ArticleBulletin: David Eastman; Australia; (5); Stay application..."The riddle is...
"Inside the Colin Winchester murder mystery is an enigma and a riddle. The first is a question so delicate that it can scarcely be articulated, at least in public, at this stage of a case in which...
View ArticleBulletin: Motherisk; Major Development: Toronto Star (Reporter Jacques...
PUBLISHER'S VIEW: (Editorial); It's hard to imagine that The Government of Ontario did not see the possibility of a conflict of interest when it appointed Justice Judith Beaman to head the Motherisk...
View ArticleBulletin: Bite-mark evidence; Texas: Major Development; Innocence Project...
In a Landmark Decision, Texas Forensic Science Commission Issues Moratorium on the Use of Bite Mark Evidence Share This: Posted: February 12, 2016 3:23 PMToday the Texas Forensic Science...
View ArticleBulletin: Shaken Baby Syndrome: (4): Alan Gimenez: (California); Drayton...
STORY: "Court cases challenge 'Shaken Baby' diagnosis," by Associated Press reporter Sudhin Thanawala, published by the News Times. on February 14, 2016.GIST: "A California jury convicted Alan Gimenez...
View ArticleShaken Baby Syndrome: (5): Aisling Brady McCarthy: Boston Globe columnist...
STORY: "Lawsuit against nanny may force harsh details to surface," by columnist Kevin Cullen, published by the Boston Globe on February 13, 2016.GIST: "The story of Rehma Sabir, the 1-year-old...
View ArticleBite-mark evidence: BBC News observes that, "A Texas forensic science...
STORY: "Can you catch a killer using only teeth marks?" by reporter Jessica Lussenhop published by BBC NEWS on February 15, 2016;GIST: "A Texas forensic science commission has recommended that bite...
View ArticleBulletin: David Eastman; Australia; Stay application (6): The Canberra Times...
"Commonwealth prosecutors say they have no record of ever having known of concerns about the reliability of a top FBI examiner who helped bolster the forensic case against David Eastman. FBI unit...
View ArticleBulletin: Editorial: Concord Monitor (New Hampshire) editorial notes that...
"Politicians talk of innocents killed by American weapons overseas as if the victims weren’t people at all but rather battlefield layers to be stripped away. And then they strip away the social safety...
View ArticleShaken Baby Syndrome (6): Brian Peixoto; Massachusetts; Boston Magazine's...
STORY: "Brian Peixoto’s Final Appeal," by Gus Garcia-Roberts, published by Boston Magazine in its February 2016 issue.SUB-HEADING: "Twenty years ago, an unreliable witness and questionable medical...
View ArticleBulletin: Shaken Baby Syndrome: (7): Good news: ‘The Syndrome’ - a superb...
"Freestyle Digital Media, the newly acquired distribution arm of Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, has snatched up North American distribution rights to The Syndrome. The documentary, directed by...
View ArticleBulletin: David Bain. New Zealand; Disturbing Development; New Zealand Herald...
"David Bain has suffered another blow in his compensation claim for wrongful imprisonment following a confidential report by a senior judge found he did not meet the threshold of "innocent beyond...
View ArticleBulletin: Dennis Oland; New Brunswick; He has been denied bail while awaiting...
"Dennis Oland has been denied the bail release he was seeking as he waits to appeal his second-degree murder conviction in the 2011 slaying of his father, New Brunswick multimillionare Richard Oland....
View ArticleBite-mark evidence: (1): Dallas Morning News says ban on bite-mark evidence...
EDITORIAL: "Ban on bite-mark evidence would be welcome step against junk science," published by the Dallas Morning News on February 16, 2016.PHOTO CAPTION: Research scientists at the University at...
View ArticleBulletin: Bite mark evidence: (2): Steven Chaney case: (Texas); Star-Telegram...
"Bite mark analysis was brought to the commission’s attention after Steven Chaney was exonerated for a 1987 murder. Although he claimed innocence and had several alibi witnesses, a bite mark on the...
View ArticleBulletin: David Eastman: Australia; ABC News reports that his hearing for a...
"David Eastman is facing a long wait to learn if he will face a new trial for the 1989 murder of senior AFP Officer Colin Winchester after his stay application wrapped up in the ACT Supreme Court.Most...
View ArticleBulletin: David Bain: New Zealand; Aftermath (1): Rachel Smalley, Europe...
COMMENTARY: "Bain investigation flawed from the start," by Rachel Smalley, published by Newstalk ZB on February 18, 2016.GIST: "A report in the New Zealand Herald this morning (February 18, 2016))...
View ArticleBulletin: Joseph Buffey: West Virginia; His motions to withdraw guilty pleas...
"According to the Harrison County Prosecuting Attorney's Office the lawyers for Joseph Buffey have officially filed a motion requesting that his guilty pleas be withdrawn. Buffey originally pleaded...
View ArticleBulletin: Dennis Oland; New Brunswick; CBC's 'Fifth Estate" presents a new...
"It was called the trial of the century in New Brunswick - - a confluence of celebrity, money and murder. Richard Oland of the Moosehead brewing family -- one of the richest, most powerful men in the...
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