Showing posts with label junk science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label junk science. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Execution Watch: 8/21/2019

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Texas cranks up the death machine again on Wednesday night... LARRY SWEARINGEN, condemned in the December 1988 slaying of a woman last se...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

A look into junk science

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On the way home from the office the other night I caught the current episode of the Murderish  podcast - "Lime Street Fire." The e...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Execution Watch: 2/28/2019

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Tomorrow night the State of Texas will murder once again... BILLY COBLE, 70. One of the oldest people on death row, he was sentenced to de...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Junk science and guns

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Are the ejector marks from a handgun unique? How many handguns would you have to fire in order to make that conclusion? The Bureau of Alc...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Book review: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

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I just finished an excellent book from Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington Sunday night as the storm raged around us. And by excellent I, o...
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Friday, May 11, 2018

What goes around keeps going around

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In our digital world, nothing really ever goes away. That off-hand comment you made on Twitter or that snarky remark you made on someone...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

There once was a lab analyst...

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Oh the fun and games over at the Harris County Institute for Forensic Sciences never seem to stop. Last week a lab analyst was fired for not...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Taking away freedom on the cheap

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One of our worst nightmares is being wrongly arrested by the police and getting lost in the criminal (in)justice system. Thanks to a cheap d...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

More breath test shenanigans

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If you have been a long time follower of this blog the name Dee Wallace should ring a bell. She was the technical supervisor in charge of b...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Stop me if you've heard this before...

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It seems that no matter how hard it tries, the Houston Police Department Crime Lab just can't keep itself out of the news. Peter Lentz w...
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Monday, June 17, 2013

Couldn't you just see it coming?

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Law enforcement officers are highly trained professionals who routinely undergo continuing training and education in new areas in order to d...
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Shielding the truth

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Later today the Texas Forensic Science Commission will meet in Austin. One of the items on the agenda will be the scandal at the DPS crime l...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Judge tells state to just test the damn DNA

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Jeff Gamso has been fighting the good fight for longer than I'm sure he cares to remember. As a blogger, his work is "can't mis...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Slicing and dicing away in the Magnolia State

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By all accounts Dr. Steven Hayne of Mississippi worked his butt off. For a period of almost 20 years, Dr. Hayne performed about 1700 autopsi...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

One night in Hudspeth County

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Rusty Fleming wants all you budding country and rock stars to know that they don't much care for drugs down in the Valley in Hudspeth Co...
Monday, July 16, 2012

FBI to review thousands of cases for faulty forensics

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Oops. Now the FBI is reviewing thousands of cases dating back to 1985 to determine if anyone was wrongly convicted as the result of hair a...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

And the news just keeps getting worse

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Life's just not getting any easier for embattled Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley. Not only is he facing what appears to...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Maryland court finds DRE to be unreliable

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In 1979 two sergeants with the Los Angeles Police Department cooked up the Drug Recognition and Classification Program (DEC). The National H...
Monday, March 12, 2012

No means no, unless it doesn't

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"Texas law is clear that the existence and results of a polygraph examination are inadmissible for all purposes." --  Tennard v. ...

Indiana crime lab miscues cast doubt on convictions

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There's a tempest a-brewing in Indiana following the release of a report by the Indiana Supreme Court stating that the state's crim...