Jeffrey Ferguso FBI overstated hair match crisis (The Emperor's clothes); (7)...
STORY: "Missouri man executed after faulty hair testimony was convicted in St. Louis County," by reporter Robert Patrick, published by St. Louis Post Dispatch today, onApril 23 2015.PHOTO CAPTION:...
View ArticleFBI overstated hair matches: (8) (The Emperor's Clothes) Florida reported to...
STORY: "Florida has highest number of cases affected by faulty FBI hair analysis," by reporter Ray Downs, published by The New Times Broward -Palm Beach on April 22, 2015.GIST: "The FBI has been...
View ArticleFBI overstated hair match crisis (9); (The Emperor's clothes); Dahlia...
HEADING: "Pseudoscience in the witness box: The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science," by Dahlia Lithwick, published by Slate on April 22, 2015.SUB-HEADING: "The Washington Post reported that...
View ArticlePedro Hernandez: (Up-dates follow main story): New York: Jury enters 7th day...
STORY: "Day 7 of jury deliberations in 1979 New York child murder case," by reporter Natasja Sheriff, published by Reuters on April 23, 2014.GIST: "Jurors considering a murder charge against the man...
View ArticleShelley Richter; Missouri; Babysitter released pending appeal of her...
STORY: "Babysitter sentenced for endangering welfare of child," by reporter Bob Watson, published by the News Tribune on March 17, 2015.GIST: "Cole County Presiding Circuit Judge Pat Joyce sentenced...
View ArticleDavid Eastman; Australia; David Eastman has lost his motion to force Judge...
STORY: "David Eastman loses bid to have judge removed," by reporter Christopher Knaus published by the ACT Times on April 24, 2015.GIST: "David Eastman failed a bid to remove the judge from sitting on...
View ArticleMassachusett's breath test scandal: (Here we go again? HL); Authorities warn...
STORY: "Breath test brouhaha: OUI (operating under influence HL) cases could face challenge," by reporters O'Ryan Johnson and Jack Encarnacao, published by The Boston Herald on April 24 2015.GIST:...
View ArticleBulletin: Letitia Smallwood; Pennsylvania; Bail hearing today for woman...
A bail hearing is set for Friday for a Cumberland County woman who has spent the past four decades behind bars in connection to a deadly fire. Prosecutors said 62-year-old Letitia Smallwood of Carlisle...
View ArticleBulletin: Elizabeth Ramirez, Anna Vasquez, Kristie Mayhugh and Cassandra...
Cassandra Rivera was the final witness in a hearing in which four woman who have become known at the San Antonio Four are seeking to have their names cleared in a 1994 sexual abuse of a child case. All...
View ArticleGeorge Perrot: (Massachusetts); Wrongful Convictions Blog highights his case...
POST: "Case highlights harmful impact of flawed FBI hair testimony," by Martin Yant, published by the Wrongful Convictions Blog, on April 23, 2015.GIST: "The Guardian has effectively put a human face...
View ArticleMotherisk: Toronto Star reports that the pregnancy drug maker Duchesnay is...
HEADING: "Pregnancy drug maker Duchesnay financially linked to Motherisk, obstetrician group," by reporter Rachel Mendleson, David Bruiser and Jesse McLean, published by the Toronto Star on April...
View ArticleWiley Bridgeman; Kwame Ajamu; Brothers spent decades in prison for crime they...
STORY: "Correcting a horrible wrong: Brothers who spent decades in prison for crime they didn't commit get initial payment of $1.6 million," by reporter John Kuntz, published by the Plain Dealer on...
View ArticleFBI overstated hair match evidence; (10); (The Emperor's Clothes): The Daily...
POST: "On death row for the wrong hair," by Kate Briquelet, published by the Daily Beast on April 25, 2015.GIST: "Hair analysis helped to send Willie Jerome Manning to death row 21 years ago. The...
View ArticleBulletin: Pedro Hernandez: Seven-and-a-half days of deliberations - and no...
After seven-and-a-half days of deliberations, jurors have not yet reached a verdict in a notorious 1979 missing boy case and will return to a Manhattan court Monday. Jurors requested hours of testimony...
View ArticleBulletin: Letitia Smallwood; Closer to freedom; Judge orders her release on...
A Carlisle woman convicted of arson-murder in 1973 is set to get her first taste of freedom after more than four decades in prison.In a hearing held in the Cumberland County Courthouse on Friday...
View ArticleMotherisk debacle: Hospital for Sick Children. Toronto Star says answers are...
EDITORIAL: "Let's see an interim report on Motherisk mess," published by the Toronto Star on April 24, 2015.SUB-HEADING: "December is too long to wait for a review of problems with Motherisk testing....
View ArticleDonnis George Musgrove: Alabama; Associated Press reports that another man on...
STORY: "Another man on death row in Alabama for 27 years claims he is innocent," reported by the Associated Press, published by the Guardian on April 25, 2015.SUB-HEADING: "Lawyers for Donnis George...
View ArticleRay Krone: Peter Neufeld, co-founder and co-director of the Innocence...
COMMENTARY: "Can't fix the system's use of forensic science without changing the science," by Peter Neufeld, published by the New York Times on March 30, 2015. Peter Neufeld is co-founder and...
View ArticleBulletin: Donnis George Musgrove: Yet another Alabama death row inmate...
"Another Alabama death row inmate is petitioning courts to order his release. Donnis George Musgrove has been on death row for 27 years since being convicted of capital murder in February 1988. His...
View ArticleEx-Texas Governor Rick Perry: The Associated Press reports that the court...
"An ex-Rick Perry's staff member is one of three judges who will consider the ex-governor's appeal to have his felony abuse-of-power charges dismissed. Justice Bob Pemberton is one of the judges from...
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