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15 Mar 2010, 9:05 am
Police are talking with Parkland hospital officials and the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences about the costs of expanding that program to everyone who is arrested on suspicion of DWI. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 7:35 am
FBI lab technicians compared bullet fragments from a crime scene with bullets possessed by suspects. [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 12:00 pm
In 2005, the United States Congress ordered the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study on forensic science to address problems like these. [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 9:20 am
.'s top forensic scientist has been transferred out of the police department amid an increasingly bitter conflict for control of the city's crime laboratory.William Vosburgh was brought in amid much fanfare to assist construction of a long-delayed, $140 million crime laboratory and to build a top-flight forensic science program to match it. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 4:17 am
Its 14 forensic scientists made 123 appearances in drug cases in 2008, or fewer than one a month each, according to the state's solicitor general. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 1:26 pm
" The article is one of the first published in the MSM in Texas to fully explore the implications of conclusions published earlier this year by the National Academies of Science (NAS) that many common forensic techniques had no scientific basis and their validity had never been tested - particularly comparative disciplines where individual technicians seek to match patterns in everything from fingerprints to tire tracks to ballistics to bite marks. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 9:00 pm
. - The prosecutor presented the testimony of the cop, the breath technician, and the Virginia Department of Forensic Sciences person who certified the Intoximeter. - We presented the testimony of our own Intoximeter EC/IR expert, who testified that: -- The Intoximeter should have been recalibrated after the gas was replaced in the machine, but there was no recalibration. -- The Intoximeter does not make room for mouth temperature variations. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 8:14 am
†Bradley shot back almost immediately: “Bassett utterly failed to adopt even a definition of negligence or misconduct to be applied to investigations of forensic science. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 3:44 am
Only time will tell.But even if the crime lab meets all current standards, there's increasing evidence that current standards often aren't good enough to pass scientific muster.I didn't write much about the National Academy of Science's book-length report on forensics when it came out this spring because the legislative session was full upon us, but that document deserves more focus than I've given it, though it's received wide attention in other… [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 11:29 am
After Texas injected Cameron Todd Willingham with a lethal drug cocktail for setting a fire that killed his three children, the state created the Forensic Science Commission, which then hired a national fire expert to investigate. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 7:46 am
"Just how scientific is forensic science? [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 10:31 pm
.''In February, the National Academy of Sciences issued a sweeping critique of the nation's crime labs. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 1:28 pm
Forensic science is thus a great comfort to those who have been affected by the crime and a valuable tool for the criminal law and justice departments in fighting crime and bringing it to book. ------------------------------------------------ *This article is written by Kat Sanders, who regularly blogs on the topic of forensic science technician schools at her blog Forensic Scientist Blog. [read post]
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]
27 Jun 2009, 12:57 pm
Savage reported that "Defendant can cross-examine forensic experts, Supreme Court rules; Technicians who prepare crime lab reports can be called forth as witnesses, justices say, reversing a conviction of a Massachusetts man accused of selling cocaine. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 12:36 pm
” He cited one report, for example, that said “there is wide variabiility across forensic science disciplines with regard to techniques, methodologies, reliability, types and numbers of potential errors, research, general acceptability, and published material. [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]
22 Apr 2009, 7:35 am
The post, quoting an article from DailyJournal.com, should be an example and a warning for all who think that forensic science in DUI cases is unassailable. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 11:16 am
Now, it's 100 cases and climbing.About 600 cases have been shipped to some of the six other State Police labs across the state -- 100 apiece to labs in Grayling and Bridgeport last week alone -- in hopes of staying afloat, said Sarah Hough, a forensic technician at the Sterling Heights lab. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 3:46 am
"The new National Academy of Sciences report on forensic science mirrors findings of a 2004 Chicago Tribune series, 'Forensics Under the Microscope.' The Tribune found that a number of forensic disciplines, including some used in police stations and courtrooms every day, relied on flawed science, and their use contributed to the arrests and convictions of innocent people. [read post]
