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6 Apr 2013, 7:18 am
I've already provided links to the Associated Press and Texas Tribune coverage of yesterday's Texas Forensic Science Commission meeting to complete their final report on the DPS-Houston crime lab scandal involving since-resigned lab analyst Jonathan Salvador. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 9:59 am
The general counsel at the Texas Forensic Science Commission has estimated that evidence was destroyed in 25-50% of cases where Jonathan Salvador performed testing. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 11:47 am
What's most astonishing: At a meeting of the Forensic Science Commission last month, it was estimated that evidence had similarly been destroyed in 25-50% of the nearly 5,000 cases the now-terminated lab analyst had worked on, meaning hundreds more cases may be overturned before all is said and done. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 1:33 pm
I for one could have used a lot more detail on the science and methods behind the forensic analysis of controlled substances. [read post]
8 Nov 2012, 2:30 pm
Seventeen hundred cases were retested earlier in the year due to a technician's improper operation of lab equipment. [read post]
18 Oct 2012, 7:49 pm
So it might be a cooperating witness with a plea bargain one day, then a forensic technician the next or a banker, architect etc. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 2:20 am
Here's this week's round up of forensic news: An ongoing Texas arson review has revealed a number of cases where flawed forensic science may have lead to wrongful arson convictions. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 11:48 pm
Paul’s forensics unit since 2001, acknowledged in testimony that the unaccredited lab fails to abide by numerous procedures that are considered basic for sound science. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 12:00 pm
" All of these failures could easily lead to a situation where the lab manages to "come up with false positives like crazy,” testified Jay Siegel, a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and a "distinguished fellow" of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 5:15 am
Meanwhile, basic research into new forensic science tools and techniques might fall under the guise of a proposed National Forensic Science Coordinating Office, housed at the National Science Foundation (NSF).Over the next five years, the bill would provide $200 million in grants for forensic science research, and $100 million for the development of forensic science standards.Democrat Sen. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 4:49 am
Last week at the Forensic Science Commission's "roundtable," a common lament was that there exists no state-level source of training and continuing education funds for forensic scientists and technicians comparable to those for prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 8:56 am
There are also sharp distinctions between forensic practitioners who have been trained in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and medicine (and who bring these disciplines to bear in their work) and technicians who lend support to forensic science enterprises. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 8:56 am
There are also sharp distinctions between forensic practitioners who have been trained in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and medicine (and who bring these disciplines to bear in their work) and technicians who lend support to forensic science enterprises. [read post]
17 May 2012, 1:40 pm
Here's this week's round up of forensic news: Illinois prosecutors have dropped rape charges against Bennie Starks, who spent 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. [read post]
16 May 2012, 6:36 pm
• Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 9:42 am
The then-male applicant, a veteran police detective with a military and law enforcement background, had applied for the job of ballistics technician, a forensic science technician who collects and identifies physical evidence related to criminal investigations. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 7:59 am
" States inherently have a role regulating forensic science because forensic evidence is most often used in state courts. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 2:28 pm
The Forensic Science Commission directed their complaint screening committee today to consider a new case out of the Austin crime lab, discussed here on Grits, in which a fired analyst claimed that reports were issued without performing the underlying testing. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 3:42 am
Specifically, the Court held that the government cannot substitute the testimony of a lab technician who was familiar with the procedures used in analyzing a blood sample for the presence of alcohol for the testimony of the technician who actually conducted the test. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 12:30 pm
The Virginia Department of Forensic Science recently reported the findings, and the Urban Institute is analyzing them. [read post]
