Henry Keogh: South Australia; (A case tainted by Dr. Colin Manock, South...
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View ArticleRape kits: (Part 3): Prof. Lawrence Wein identifies "The sexual assault...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The picture that emerges from our study is that testing a sexual assault kit is similar to playing a high-stakes lottery with very favorable odds. It costs $1,600 to test a kit,...
View ArticleKevin Cooper: California: Major Development: The San Francisco Chronicle...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Cooper came within eight hours of execution in 2004, when the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay and ordered DNA testing of a bloody T-shirt found near the victims'...
View ArticleRape Kits: Part Four: Michael Mercer: New York: 'End the backlog' - an...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The first trial ended with a hung jury, but a second jury convicted Mercer. His sentence was 20 ½ to 41 years in prison. Mercer appealed his conviction on grounds of ineffective...
View ArticleRobert Wilkes: Montana: Shaken baby syndrome case: "'Overwhelming' medical...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Prosecutors can now appeal Haynes’ order, re-try Wilkes, or dismiss the case. In recent years, the Montana Innocence Project has obtained exonerations for several clients,...
View ArticleFETI: (Forensic Experiential Trauma interview) At last, an objective...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: It is so refreshing to see such an honest, evidence-based critique of FETI (Forensic Experiential Trauma interview) as this one - as most stories on the latest policing flavor of...
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Rodney Reed: Texas: A mother's desperate plea for DNA testing... "A...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I echo blogger/extraordinaire Jeff Gamso's blunt, unequivocal, unforgettable message to the powers that be in California on Kevin Cooper's application for post-conviction DNA testing:...
View ArticleSex crime investigations: Northern Ireland: "Two important cases in the news"...
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View ArticleSex crime investigations: Richard Holden: U.K. The nightmare he experienced...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: An excellent example of why Cressida, the Met's new Commissioner, has replaced Scotland Yard's policy of believing the victim with one of conducting a complete, impartial...
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Book Review Series (Part 1): Shaken Baby Syndrome: (Wrongful convictions): ON...
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Book Review Series (Part 2): (Shaken baby syndrome): UK: Review: 'Guilty...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The other chapter which was of particular interest to us was that which considered the issue of ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ or ‘Abusive Head Trauma’ as it is now often categorised. As...
View ArticleOf mice and marijuana: (From our "when you think you've seen it all'...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Specia and three of his subordinates were called before a judge, and all of them told the same story: the missing marijuana had been “eaten by mice. That explanation didn’t fly...
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Book Review Series (Part 3): Blind Injustice: (By Mark Godsey): Christopher...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In the roughly 10 years since I began publishing The Charles Smith Blog some of the issues I have explored - as well as some of the cases I have been following - have become the...
View ArticleSandra Higgins: Ireland: Irish Times reports that after facing four previous...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Cavan, had pleaded not guilty to intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a baby girl at the accused’s home on March 28th, 2012. The child survived. In June, 2015, Ms...
View ArticleKevin Cooper: Death Row; California; New York Times columnist Nicholas...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "This was a horrific crime, the 1983 Manson-style stabbing murders of Doug and Peggy Ryen, both 41; their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica; and an 11-year neighbor, Chris Hughes. The...
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Book Review Series: (Part 4): “Forensic Science Reform – Protecting the...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In the roughly 10 years since I began publishing The Charles Smith Blog some of the issues I have explored - as well as some of the cases I have been following - have become the...
View ArticleRichard Wright: New York; Arson 'science' case: On-going retrial..."A jury...
"PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Williams' recollection of the conversation is crucial to Special Prosecutor Jasper Mills' effort to convict Wright of four counts of second-degree murder and a count of...
View ArticleShawn Brown: Michigan: Unfortunate Development. A judge has denied his...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "At the January hearing, Dr. Joseph Scheller, a Baltimore doctor of pediatrics and neurology, testified for the Innocence Clinic that his conclusion after a review of the medical...
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Book review series: (Part 5) Teina Pora. New Zealand; Eleanor Black's story...
PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Bennett says the assurances offered by Prime Minister John Key and Justice Minister Amy Adams the day after the Privy Council decision was released in March 2015 — that it proved...
View ArticleSex crime invesigations: Presumption of innocence? (Part 1): Why must the...
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: As previously noted on this Blog, Cressida Dick, Scotland Yard's new Commissioner, (appointed about a year ago), has changed her force's policy from always believing the 'victims'...
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