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30 Jun 2009, 9:39 am
Now, a defense attorney will be able to call the lab technician for cross-examination and potentially raise question to the legitimacy of the analysis. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 7:00 am by Forensic Science Technician
As forensic science has advanced, more is being learned about how to solve crimes. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 9:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Her story opened:Houston's acting Police Chief Martha Montalvo, with the support of the powerful Houston Police Officers Union, has made a behind-closed-doors bid to take back control over the troubled Crime Scene Unit from the city's independent forensic science lab. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 2:30 am by Tinker Ready
Department of Justice no longer allows technicians and scientists from the FBI and other agencies to make such unequivocal statements, according to new testimony guidelines released last year. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 11:29 am
He urged expanded funding and staffing for the Forensic Science Commission to allow it to be more proactive instead of just "backward looking. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 1:45 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" The city manager says she wasn't informed of the alleged problems until the lab was put on probation.One wonders if this will end up being a topic the Forensic Science Commission takes on, depending on how things develop. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 5:02 pm
That means I know how evidence from a computer forensic investigation can turn around a case. [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 5:58 am by SHG
And the Innocence Project reports that bad forensic science contributed to the wrongful convictions of 47 percent of exonerees. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 12:00 am
Forensic labs may not always have sufficient oversight to avoid mistakes. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 12:00 am
Forensic labs may not always have sufficient oversight to avoid mistakes. [read post]
13 May 2008, 10:41 am
A few years back I wrote on this topic,Forensic science isn't "objective" science, it's goal oriented. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 8:27 am by Dani Selby
The Innocence Project advocates that the government — including forensic laboratories, police, prosecutors — promptly and meaningfully correct and notify when issues with forensic science or evidence come to light, which San Francisco has done. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 7:57 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
” The legalization has thrown a wrench into the prosecution of marijuana offenses as now the State will have to prove the percentage of THC: “Inside the Houston Forensic Science Center, where technicians test marijuana every week, scientists look at the plant under a microscope to detect small hairs unique to the Cannabis Sativa plant. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 9:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
14 Aug 2008, 4:49 am
A study of the first 86 DNA exonerations garnered by the Innocence Project estimated that faulty forensic science played a role in more than 50 percent of the wrongful convictions. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 9:43 am by Lawrence Taylor
Kansas statutes require offenders ‘‘to pay a separate court cost of $400 for every individual offense if forensic science or laboratory services or forensic computer examination services are provided in connection with the investigation. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 3:42 am by Jamison Koehler
 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]