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Only Half Of Major Crime Labs Have Adopted National Standards
A Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic scientist manipulated hundreds of DNA test results, including those in a triple murder case....
Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20242 min read
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Sotomayor Urges States to Address Debunked Forensic Evidence
“Is there a constitutional right not to be convicted based on junk science?” The Intercept asks, in a piece about an Alabama case based...
Crime and Justice News
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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Is Criminal Justice System Too Slow To Reject ‘Junk Science’?
Memory scientists have long been mistrustful of eyewitness reports because memory is malleable. In recent years, says psychologist John...
Crime and Justice News
Jun 10, 20242 min read
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Probe Of CO Forensic Scientist Questions Thousands Of DNA Cases
For nearly three decades, Colorado forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods was relied on by police and prosecutors to test DNA evidence...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20242 min read
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SCOTUS Case Challenges Forensic Scientists Testifying About Tests They Didn't Conduct
A case being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court in January could change how forensic evidence is admitted in courtrooms, according to a...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20232 min read
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After two years, D.C.’s troubled crime lab back in business
Two of the D.C. crime lab’s forensic science units have been re-accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board, the Washington Post...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20231 min read
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Houston Crime Lab Backlog Delays Murder Trials
The backlog of murder cases at Houston's forensic science center is leading to significant delays in Harris County murder cases, the...
Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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Maryland High Court Limits Ballistics Evidence
The science of matching a particular bullet to a particular gun is sufficiently shaky that Maryland courts will now impose stricter...
Crime and Justice News
Jun 22, 20232 min read
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Chicago Judge's Ruling Sets Off Alarms in Firearms Analysis
A century of expert ballistics testimony and common practices of "matching" particular guns to spent bullets faces new scrutiny following...
Crime and Justice News
May 26, 20232 min read
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State Open Doors Wider to Innocence Claims
As more states grapple with the reliability of past expert testimony in criminal cases and loosen restrictions on making innocence claims...
Crime and Justice News
May 24, 20232 min read
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AL Board Denies Parole Despite Discredited Bite Mark Evidence
Last month, Chad McCrory had two minutes to tell the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles why, nearly four decades after his mother was...
Crime and Justice News
Mar 13, 20232 min read
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New Technology Shows Bruises on Darker-Skinned Assault Victims
New research is exploring ways to detect bruises on individuals with darker skin in an effort to aid assault investigations, NPR reports....
Crime and Justice News
Feb 21, 20232 min read
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AZ Students Help Develop Database For Crime Scene Shoe Print ID
A collaboration between Grand Canyon University forensic science students and the Phoenix Police Department Crime Lab generated a new...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 19, 20232 min read
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Police Say Little On How Forensic Genealogy Helped Solve ID Killings
Around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, a masked man broke into a house near the University of Idaho campus and killed four students. Early in the...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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Research Improves Detection of Bruises In Assault Cases
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has announced study results and further funding for cutting-edge techniques of forensic trauma...
By Shannon Johanni
Oct 3, 20222 min read
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Rape Kits in TN Crime Labs Languish for Months Before Being Tested
State lawmakers are expected to spend more on a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) crime lab after a Memphis murder case showed that...
Crime and Justice News
Sep 21, 20222 min read
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