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30 Sep 2011, 4:18 pm
A Connecticut professor is setting up a national databank that will allow law enforcement to track marijuana DNA.The Clark County coroner's office utilizes a team of forensic odontologists to identify victims through forensic dentistry and analyze bite marks, a forensic technique that was questioned by a recent National Academy of Sciences report. [read post]
6 Feb 2019, 12:04 pm
Lab technicians are human. [read post]
16 Oct 2013, 12:35 pm
Willingham was convicted anyway and later executed; after his death, that flawed forensic evidence was questioned and analyzed, putting the Texas Forensic Science Commission under real scrutiny by the news media and others. 3. [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]
8 Jan 2014, 1:10 pm
The new law allows Texas judges to overturn convictions upon a showing that forensic evidence used to get a conviction is bad forensic science or “junk science. [read post]
5 May 2009, 10:39 am
It was faulty forensic science and lack of professional standards that prompted a former Houston Police Department crime lab technician to testify falsely in the rape and robbery trial of Gary Alvin Richard in 1987. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 7:01 am
When looking for an education as a forensic science technician, there can be many questions. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 6:00 pm
My boss Jeff Blackburn from the Innocence Project of Texas was in town today for the Forensic Science Commission meeting and we sat down for a recorded chat, the second-ever Grits podcast, fwiw. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 3:42 am
It wants to train technicians and supervise crime labs, and to separate the science in a crime scene investigation from the police work. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 11:36 am
Nearly everyone’s heard of the CSI Effect – the hypothesis that the ubiquity of crime-scene-technician shows on TV has led juries to demand more tangible forensic evidence of crime, and has led them to disdain eyewitness evidence and circumstantial evidence that doesn’t seem “scientific” enough. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 12:41 pm
My older sister followed in his footsteps in her pursuit of science and attended MIT and GW for microbiology and forensic science. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 8:50 am
Forensic science is not neutral or objective like work by scientists who perform basic research. [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]
17 Jun 2007, 1:17 am
" Marcus identifies some of my main criticisms of modern forensic science - mainly that it's a goal-oriented instead of truth seeking. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 2:13 pm
This makes essential a mouth check at least twenty minutes before blowing into the machine, both because the Virginia Department of Forensic Science (DFS) Intox EC/IR II breathalyzer procedures require such checking (and the breath technician's signed attestation clause asserts that s/he has followed DFS procedures) but also because the presence of foreign substances in the suspect's mouth can trap alcohol in the oral cavity, and thus upend the need for BAC… [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]
19 Jan 2020, 8:39 pm
As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I have in many DWI trials objected to breath testing results when the breath technician has mistakenly referred to the sole Virginia Department of Forensic Science ("DFS")-approved post-arrest breathalyzer as the Intoximeter EC/IR II or Intoxilyzer EC/IR II, when the only correct name for the equipment is Intox EC/IR II. [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 5:30 am
Mistakes by a single forensic technician has the potential to impact hundreds if not thousands of cases. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 3:04 pm
" Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has this report. [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]
