Forensics and Law in Focus
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Dr. Michael Bowers is a dentist and forensic consultant in the U.S. and international court systems. His blog highlights a number of themes relating to forensic science and CSI, include how to give expert forensic testimony as well as how to avoid forensic science malpractice.
Forensics and Law in Focus
1w ago
This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” — Read on evolutionnews.org/2024/07/three-genuine-tells-of-junk-science ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
1w ago
The remains are the first from those graves to be linked directly to the massacre, in which white people killed as many as 300 Black people. — Read on www.wbay.com/2024/07/12/wwi-veteran-is-first-identified-victim-1921-tulsa-massacre-since-mass-graves-found-mayor-says ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
2w ago
USDOJ funding for these cases is paltry and poorly organized due to bureaucratic and Congressional apathy. https://www.wral.com/video/6-200-cold-cases-unsolved-in-north-carolina/21517519 ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
2w ago
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2024/07/09/detroit-settles-8-5-million-in-larry-smiths-wrongful-conviction/74329447007 ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
2w ago
I have co-existed with these dentists for decades. Some are sincere and thoughtful. Others are raging egotists. None are trained as a “scientist .” The outrageous cases like McCrory’s (see the link below) over the last 2 decades have led ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
6M ago
https://www.firstalert4.com/2024/01/02/mother-missing-child-advocates-legislation-aid-missing-people-missouri ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
6M ago
Police around the US say they’re justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea. — Read on www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
7M ago
AI discovers that not every fingerprint is un | EurekAlert! — Read on www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030475 ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
7M ago
The state can provide the wrongfully convicted compensation of $50,000 for each year of incarceration, but the law’s narrow criteria and confusion over eligibility leave former prisoners facing another system that seems stacked against them. — Read on www.propublica.org/article/why-michigan-failing-compensate-wrongly-convicted-despite-law ..read more
Forensics and Law in Focus
7M ago
In France, experts are often selected by judges from lists published by the courts. — Read on www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2024/jan/03/a-need-to-define-forensic-expertise-2647232.html ..read more