Stephon Clark; California: Dueling autopsies: State senator Richard Pan...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Kimberly Gin, the Sacramento County Coroner, is not a doctor and said she worked with five pathologists on the autopsy of Clark's body. The county reported that Clark was shot...
View ArticleBulletin: David Eastman: Australia; June 4 set for retrial of the man...
BACKGROUND: Read the Wikipedia entry at the link below;"A new inquiry relating to his conviction was announced in August 2012.[12] In 2014, the inquiry, headed by Justice Brian Ross Martin, found there...
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Sonja Farak; Annie Dookhan: Massachusetts; White Elephant Cases; 'Court...
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View ArticleForensic science blunders: Scotland Yard: UK; "A new forensic science scandal...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Forensics are the cornerstone of the criminal justice system, crucial to investigators and the courts in determining guilt or innocence, and what to investigate. It is the latest...
View ArticleFlawed Forensics: James Corbett warns about state-of-the-art technology that...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I was a bit leery when I read the title of James Corbett's podcast transcript': 4 ways the crime lab can frame you. A tad dramatic! And much of the pseudoscience he covers is old...
View ArticleFaulty forensics: An excellent expanation of contemporary faulty forensics by...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This excellent study of "faulty forensics" is authored by Jessica Brand, Legal Director of The Fair Punishment Project at Harvard. I became aware of the Fair Punishment Project when...
View ArticleTechnology: Song of the day: 'Don't geofence me in."...How much can citizens...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In a recent post, James Corbett, of the Corbett Report, warned about state-of-the-art police technology that may well be pseudoscience."Does this technology work, or is it all hype?,...
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Major Development: Kamalkant Shah; New Jersey; White Elephant Case? Drug lab...
In the years since I started publishing this Blog I have become increasingly disturbed by the 'white elephant' in the room: Sheer, unadulterated, willful misconduct in the criminal justice system -...
View ArticleMichael Burgund: UK: Retrial on charges of sexually abusing children: Alleged...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Buttry also admitted she had reported, to a doctor, possible sexual assault on her daughter by a man to whom she was married years ago. She said a doctor told her that the child’s...
View ArticleFlawed breathalyzers? ZDNet reports "The source code behind a police...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "One attorney, who read the report, said they believed the report showed the breathalyzer "tipped the scales" in favor of prosecutors, and against drivers."STORY: "Researchers say...
View ArticleFlawed ballistics: (2): Book Review: Charles Kaiser reviews Anthony Ray...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "One of his arresting officers explained his fate this way, after the prisoner told him he could prove he had been working at the time of one of the murders: “You know, I don’t even...
View ArticleTechnology: Familial DNA testing: New weapon for policing abortion laws in...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "This strikes me as quite a novel way to deploy familial searching techniques,” said Natalie Ram, who teaches bioethics and law at the University of Baltimore. “Usually when we have...
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Maurice Caldwell: California: From our 'Enough to make one weep department':...
In the years since I started publishing this Blog I have become increasingly disturbed by the 'white elephant' in the room: Sheer, unadulterated, willful misconduct in the criminal justice system -...
View ArticleLetitia Smallwood: New Jersey; Outdated arson 'science.' Worthy of our...
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View ArticleTechnology: Predictive policing: Major Development. (A refreshing one at...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In a recent post, James Corbett, of the Corbett Report, warned about state-of-the-art police technology that may well be pseudoscience."Does this technology work, or is it all hype?,...
View ArticleVanDyke Perry; Gregory Counts: New York: (Another one from our 'Enough to...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Perry and Counts were represented by lawyers from the Innocence Project and the Office of the Appellate Defender, who undertook a first-time ever collaboration with the Manhattan...
View ArticlePredictive policing/Palantir: (1): 'Intercept' story alleges that, aided by...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In a recent post, James Corbett, of the Corbett Report, warned about state-of-the-art police technology that may well be pseudoscience."Does this technology work, or is it all hype?,...
View ArticlePredictive policing/Palantir (2); Washington City Paper reports that "D.C....
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View ArticleKevin Cooper: Death Row: California: New York Times columnist Nicholas...
COMMENTARY: "Was Kevin Cooper framed for murder," by Nicholas Kristof, with Jessia Ma and Stuart Thompson, published by The New York Times on May 17, 2018.GIST: "In 1983, four people were murdered in...
View ArticleMichael Burgund: Belleville, Illinois; False confessions? Belleville...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The trial took place in 2013 before then-Circuit Judge Ann Callis, and the older child testified against Burgund. Callis excluded testimony from witnesses who the defense said...
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