Faked lineup identification: "A New York police detective was arrested on...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "In a 2016 court hearing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Detective Foder testified about what happened next. He prepared two photo lineups — one for each suspect. Each one...
View ArticleFalse identifications: Refreshing commentary by two veteran law enforcement...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "We do our job every day knowing victims and families are in pain, communities are scared, and the public wants fast answers where there are often only questions. We also know that...
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Adnan Syed: Maryland: Bulletin: New trial ordered (once again) for subject of...
"PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Brown is optimistic they will get a new trial. He said he hopes the state will forgo an appeal and seek to retry the case. "If we go to trial, we will win that trial," Brown told...
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Ledura Watkins: Michigan: Flawed hair analysis case: Centrepiece of former...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The good news is that an increasing number of elected prosecutors around the country have created “conviction integrity units” in their offices, 33 as of the end of last year....
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Stephon Clark: California: Bulleting: Police shooting: Private autopsy shows...
QUOTE (1) OF THE DAY: "He was shot in the back six times. The seventh gunshot wound was slightly to the side of his body but to the back of the side of his body," Omalu said during the news conference....
View ArticleSecret predictive policing software. New Orleans. Techdirt reports that the...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "That's what happens when algorithms decide people in the general vicinity of each other must all engage in the same activities. If some of them engage in criminal activities, then...
View ArticleSue Neill-Fraser; Australia. Stephen Gleason; The plot truly thickens. ABC...
STORY: "Sue Neill-Fraser murder case: Man pleads guilty to perverting course of justice over his evidence," by reporter Edith Evans, published by ABC News on March 23, 2018.PHOTO CAPTION: "Bob...
View ArticleAdnan Syad: Maryland. ('Serial' case): Contested cell tower evidence); CBS...
STORY: "Serial" case: What's next for Adnan Syed?, by reporter Erin Donague, published by CBS News on March 31, 2018.GIST: "The subject of the popular podcast "Serial" had his murder conviction...
View ArticleKathleen Folbigg; New South Wales; Australia; Her case is included in a...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Art that explores criminal cases is far from a new genre, but what is different about this exhibition is the way the lawyers worked closely with the participating artists, bringing...
View ArticleCharles Flores: Flawed forensic hypnosis; Dallas Observer Investigative...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "At Flores' hearing late last year in Dallas, Sween called Flores' expert, Steven Lynn, a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He explained...
View ArticleRape complaints: Police under fire. (Part 1): Reid Technique: Oklahoma: Four...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I have run far too many posts detailing cases in which the Reid Technique has been accused of leading to miscarriages of justice over the decades. They showed how there were...
View ArticleRape complaints: Police under fire. (Part 2); Forensic Experiential Trauma...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The response by the New York Police Department (NYPD) to a recent report critical of its sex crimes investigations, shows how quickly the still scientifically unproven "Forensic...
View ArticleSonja Farak: Annie Dookhan; Mass. (Two earthquakes which devasted...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Yet another reminder of the disastrous consequences which are inevitable when crime labs are poorly supervised - and prosecutors cut corners to protect their own reputations and...
View ArticleRape complaints: Police under fire (Part 3): Fascinating development:...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Hear this! This is a huge important story that deserves a lot of attention. Britain's largest police force abandoned its policy of automatically believing victims in favour of a...
View ArticleEric Kelley: Ralph Lee; New Jersey: False confessions; Major development:...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The state has had these DNA results since end of 2014 showing that somebody else committed the crime," said Vanessa Potkin, an Innocence Project attorney representing Kelley. "It was...
View ArticleRape complaints: (Police under fire (Part 4); National Post columnist...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: This “we believe” mindset was in part responsible for the Operation Midland scandal, which saw a number of prominent men ruined (though never criminally charged) by allegations...
View ArticleRape complaints: Police under fire. (5): Daily Mail columnist Richard...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Two news items yesterday brought into sharp relief the shocking travesty that so-called British justice has become in recent years. The first was a report that Alison Saunders is...
View ArticleRape complaints: Police under fire. (Part 6); Scotland Yard: What happens...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "In the lead up to criminal trials, police and prosecutors have a duty to disclose evidence that might either assist the defence case or undermine the prosecution. But the recent...
View ArticleDr. John Plunkett, RIP. Radley Balko's epitaph to a great scientist:...
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View ArticleNational Commission on Forensic Science: A message (subtle warning?) from six...
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Forensic reform is challenging because the field of law is based on historical precedent, whereas science builds on itself to advance continuously,” says Thomas Albright, professor...
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